Drawing on interviews with civil society actors in the AIDS Service Organization (ASO) sector in Canada, this article explores how these actors contribute to shaping the illness identities of people living with HIV/AIDS in the shadow of efforts to criminalize exposure to HIV. While the biographically disruptive qualities associated with an HIV diagnosis have been addressed in the medical sociology literature, we turn our attention to the key role played by ASOs as interlocutors in this process. Paying specific attention to the intersection of processes of medicalization and criminalization, we ask how they are re-stigmatizing a condition that has shifted in the public consciousness from its earlier association with deviance and moral culpability. One important implication of our findings concerns the need to take greater account of how the illness identity and experience can be shaped by a ‘biography of telling’, of a renewed pressure to disclose intimate details of one's health status as a way to perform responsible practices of citizenship.

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当传记中断遇到艾滋病毒例外论：在刑事定罪的阴影下重塑疾病身份

本文通过对加拿大艾滋病服务组织 (ASO) 部门的民间社会参与者的采访，探讨了这些参与者如何在将接触 HIV 定为刑事犯罪的阴影下帮助塑造 HIV/AIDS 感染者的疾病身份。虽然在医学社会学文献中已经解决了与 HIV 诊断相关的传记破坏性特征，但我们将注意力转向 ASO 作为对话者在此过程中所发挥的关键作用。特别关注医学化和刑事化过程的交叉点，我们询问他们如何重新污名化一种在公众意识中从早期与越轨行为和道德罪责联系起来的情况。