Emily Lenton
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View article: Health‐Related Stigma: The Affordances of Electronic Health Management Systems in the Production of Structural Stigma
Health‐Related Stigma: The Affordances of Electronic Health Management Systems in the Production of Structural Stigma Open
Encounters with stigma in healthcare settings are well‐documented. In recent years, significant attention has begun to be paid to how we can reduce these stigmas, including through the identification and reformation of structural forces th…
View article: Stigmatising space-times: Addressing healthcare stigma beyond interpersonal interactions
Stigmatising space-times: Addressing healthcare stigma beyond interpersonal interactions Open
Stigma related to blood-borne viruses (BBVs) and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) has been shown to undermine the quality of healthcare. Given the pervasiveness and multiple manifestations of stigma within healthcare settings, recent…
View article: Troubling complaint: Addressing hepatitis C‐related stigma and discrimination through complaint mechanisms
Troubling complaint: Addressing hepatitis C‐related stigma and discrimination through complaint mechanisms Open
The need to grapple with hepatitis C‐related stigma and discrimination in Australian health‐care settings has been recognised in public policy, and work is underway to address it. But how likely are people to raise a complaint when they ex…
View article: Hepatitis C data justice: the implications of data-driven approaches to the elimination of hepatitis C
Hepatitis C data justice: the implications of data-driven approaches to the elimination of hepatitis C Open
The World Health Organization’s goal of achieving hepatitis C elimination by 2030 is inspiring the use of novel methods to find, diagnose and treat people living with the virus. Globally, rates of hepatitis C treatment uptake have declined…
View article: ‘I’m not hep C free’: afterlives of hepatitis C in the era of cure
‘I’m not hep C free’: afterlives of hepatitis C in the era of cure Open
Since the advent of more effective, new-generation treatment for hepatitis C, immense resources have been devoted to delivering cure to as many people with the virus as possible. The scale-up of treatment aims to prevent liver disease, liv…
View article: Performing Hepatitis C, Problematising “Cure”: The Construction of Hepatitis C (Cure) in Social Security and Migration Law
Performing Hepatitis C, Problematising “Cure”: The Construction of Hepatitis C (Cure) in Social Security and Migration Law Open
Direct-acting antiviral (DAA) treatment for the blood-borne virus hepatitis C has shifted conceptions of the disease from a chronic infection–and, in some legal contexts, a “disability”–towards a non-permanent impairment capable of “cure”.…
View article: The trouble with normalisation: Transformations to hepatitis C health care and stigma in an era of viral elimination
The trouble with normalisation: Transformations to hepatitis C health care and stigma in an era of viral elimination Open
Modern health‐care systems have customarily approached hepatitis C in ways that resemble the public health approach to HIV/AIDS known as ‘HIV exceptionalism’. HIV exceptionalism describes the unusual emphasis on privacy, confidentiality an…
View article: Complicating cure: How Australian criminal law shapes imagined post‐hepatitis C futures
Complicating cure: How Australian criminal law shapes imagined post‐hepatitis C futures Open
In recent years, highly tolerable and effective drugs have emerged promising a radical new ‘post‐hepatitis C’ world. Optimism about medical cure potentially overlooks discrimination and stigma associated with hepatitis C and injecting drug…
View article: Echoes and Antibodies: Legal Veridiction and the Emergence of the Perpetual Hepatitis C Subject
Echoes and Antibodies: Legal Veridiction and the Emergence of the Perpetual Hepatitis C Subject Open
New drugs with the potential to cure hepatitis C have emerged. There is great optimism within medicine about the transformative potential of cure, but this overlooks the entrenched discrimination and stigma associated with both hepatitis C…
View article: Becoming posthuman: hepatitis C, the race to elimination and the politics of remaking the subject
Becoming posthuman: hepatitis C, the race to elimination and the politics of remaking the subject Open
Hepatitis C has long been a public health problem in Australia. ‘Revolutionary’ new drugs with the potential to cure hepatitis C have now emerged. The Australian government has invested heavily in them, and has an ambitious goal to elimina…