“The kind of work of the self on the self that Foucault himself defined as spirituality is not opposed to, but actually consists in, an ongoing labor of analysis, understanding, political sensitivity and responsiveness, communication, and community”
— David Halperin in What Do Gay Men Want? An Essay on Sex, Risk, and Subjectivity

HIV Budding on a CD4 T Cell: An Electron Microscope View of Viral Replication (Image: Gilad Doitsh / Gladstone Institutes)

I am a PhD candidate at the Institute for Bioethics and Health Humanities in The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.

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Vishnu Subrahmanyam

I am a PhD candidate at the Institute for Bioethics and Health Humanities within the School of Public and Population Health at UTMB Galveston. My dissertation studies the social, ethical, and biopolitical dimensions of emergent HIV treatment and care adherence regimens. I am a qualitative social researcher working mainly at the intersections of critical studies of HIV, Science and Technology Studies (STS), and queer-feminist theories of love, care, and forgiveness. I also work across public health ethics, disability studies, community engagement in biomedical research, and queer-feminist bioethics.

Broadly, my scholarship explores how biomedical knowledges and practice shape people, institutions, and society. The interdisciplinary scope of my scholarship allows me to critically engage with my fields of interest as objects of analysis, enabling a nuanced examination that integrates theoretical rigor with reflexive inquiry.

Scholarship

Molldrem, Stephen, Anthony KJ Smith, and Vishnu Subrahmanyam. "Toward consent in molecular HIV surveillance?: Perspectives of critical stakeholders." AJOB Empirical Bioethics 15, no. 1 (2024): 66-79.

Molldrem, Stephen, Sedilame Bagani, Vishnu Subrahmanyam, Rebecca Permar, Ogopotse Matsiri, Cynthia Caiphus, Balladiah Kizito, Chawangwa Modongo, and Sanghyuk S. Shin. "Botswana tuberculosis (TB) stakeholders broadly support scaling up next-generation whole genome sequencing: ethical and practical considerations for Botswana and global health." PLOS Global Public Health 3, no. 11 (2023): e0002479.

Subrahmanyam, Vishnu, and Emma Tumilty. "Conflicts of Integrity: Research Ethics Practice and Environmental Justice." The American Journal of Bioethics 24, no. 3 (2024): 62-64.

Molldrem, Stephen, Jacob D. Moses, Alberto Aparicio, and Vishnu Subrahmanyam. "For Analytics Beyond “Personhood,” Bioethics Should Look Toward Science and Technology Studies (STS)." The American Journal of Bioethics 24, no. 1 (2024): 46-48.

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