By Dr Asha Sofia Persson

Journal articles

Persson AS, 2012, 'The undoing and doing of sexual identity among HIV-positive heterosexual men in Australia', Men and Masculinities, 15, pp. 311 - 328, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184X12450015

Persson AS; Newman C, 2012, 'When HIV-positive children grow up: A critical analysis of the transition literature in developed countries', Qualitative Health Research, 22, pp. 656 - 667, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732311431445

Persson AS, 2011, 'HIV-negativity in serodiscordant relationships: The absence, enactment, and liminality of serostatus identity', Medical Anthropology, 30, pp. 569 - 590, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2011.561456

Persson AS; Ellard JM; Newman CE; Holt M; de Wit J, 2011, 'Human rights and universal access for men who have sex with men and people who inject drugs: a critical reflection on 2010 UNGASS narrative country progress reports', Social Science and Medicine, 73, pp. 467 - 474, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.05.047

Persson AS, 2010, 'Embodied worlds: A semiotic phenomenology of Satyananda Yoga', Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 16, pp. 797 - 815, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2010.01654.x

Persson AS, 2010, 'Reflections on the Swiss Consensus Statement in the context of qualitative interviews with heterosexuals living with HIV', AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio - Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV, 22, pp. 1487 - 1492, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2010.482122

Newman CE; Persson AS, 2009, 'Fear, complacency and the spectacle of risk: The making of HIV as a public concern in Australia', Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Health Illness and Medicine, 13, pp. 7 - 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363459308097358

Persson AS; Richards W, 2008, 'From closet to heterotopia: A conceptual exploration of disclosure and `passing` among heterosexuals living with HIV', Culture, Health and Sexuality, 10, pp. 73 - 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691050701669048

Persson AS; Newman CE, 2008, 'Making monsters: Heterosexuality, crime and race in recent Western media coverage of HIV', Sociology of Health and Illness, 30, pp. 632 - 646, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2008.01082.x

Persson AS, 2008, 'Sero-silence and sero-sharing: Managing HIV in serodiscordant heterosexual relationships', AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio - Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV, 20, pp. 503 - 506, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540120701787487

Persson AS; Richards W, 2008, 'Vulnerability, gender and `proxy negativity`: Women in relationships with HIV-positive men in Australia', Social Science and Medicine, 67, pp. 799 - 807, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.05.010

Persson AS, 2007, 'Intimate immensity: Phenomenology of place and space in an Australian yoga community', American Ethnologist, 34, pp. 44 - 56

Newman CE; Persson AS; Ellard JM, 2006, '`We just don`t know`: Ambivalence about treatment strategies in the Australian community-based HIV media', Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Health Illness and Medicine, 10, pp. 191 - 210, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363459306061788

Persson AS; Newman CE, 2006, 'Potency and vulnerability: Troubled `selves` in the context of antiretroviral therapy', Social Science and Medicine, 63, pp. 1586 - 1596, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.04.001

Persson AS, 2005, 'Facing HIV: Body shape change and the (in)visibility of illness', Medical Anthropology, 24, pp. 237 - 264

Persson AS, 2005, 'Northern Exposure: HIV and Body Shape Change in the Northern Rivers', Talkabout, 1

Persson AS, 2004, 'Incorporating Pharmakon: HIV, medicine, and body shape change', Body and Society, 10, pp. 45 - 67

Persson AS; Race KD; Wakeford E, 2003, 'HIV health in context: Negotiating medical technology and lived experience', Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Health Illness and Medicine, 7, pp. 397 - 415

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