Identifier

etd-11162006-151406

Degree

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

English

Document Type

Thesis

Abstract

This paper will critique the United States' AIDS policy, both domestic and international. I demonstrate how queer theorists have used Jacques Lacan's concepts of "jouissance" and the "unconscious desire" to suggests ways in which the current policy has dangerous implications for real people, for public health, and human rights. I reveal how the problem of rising HIV infection is not due to the lack of availability of safer-sex information, but rather it is a problem of execution: the Religious Right's ideology inscribed in our public health policy. Finally, I wish to expose how people in this country and others are increasingly denied the necessary information and services to prevent HIV transmission. These people are not even given the choice of execution because they are sheltered from the information necessary to make that choice to prevent one's self from HIV/AIDS. I hope to demonstrate how our ultra, socially conservative administration and its constituency preclude effective HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention.

Date

2006

Document Availability at the Time of Submission

Secure the entire work for patent and/or proprietary purposes for a period of one year. Student has submitted appropriate documentation which states: During this period the copyright owner also agrees not to exercise her/his ownership rights, including public use in works, without prior authorization from LSU. At the end of the one year period, either we or LSU may request an automatic extension for one additional year. At the end of the one year secure period (or its extension, if such is requested), the work will be released for access worldwide.

Committee Chair

Patrick McGee

DOI

10.31390/gradschool_theses.1863

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