As a legal scholar, I bring a wealth of experience from the University of Buenos Aires Law School, Argentina, where I specialized in criminal law and criminology. My 12-year tenure as a practicing lawyer further enriched my understanding of the legal landscape.

During the first stage of my postgraduate training, I completed two postgraduate courses, obtaining the degrees of ‘Specialist in Tort Law’ and ‘Specialist in Health Law and Medical and Institutional Liability’ at the University of Buenos Aires Law School. Driven by my deep-rooted interest in health law, I have dedicated my academic career to protecting patients’ rights, ensuring ethical practice in the field.

During the second stage of my postgraduate training, I completed my Master’s degree in Philosophy of Law at the University of Buenos Aires Law School. In this context, and due to my interest in health law, I began researching Michel Foucault’s philosophical thought. To this end, I attended various specific doctoral seminars at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters and the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires. I also attended doctoral seminars in philosophy at the National University of Lanús. This second stage of my education concluded with rediscovering my academic interests in favor of contemporary philosophy.

I am currently a doctoral candidate in law at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. My thesis consists of a critical approach to medical confidentiality for people living with HIV/AIDS. My research argues that the national HIV law, whose articles are based on the principles of comprehensiveness and multisectoralism in the fight to contain the epidemic, represents an advance compared to the former AIDS law, which was biologist and sanitarian. This law proposes a social approach to HIV from a gender and human rights perspective, focusing on the social determinants of health and the elimination of stigma. However, its regulation establishes a special confidentiality regime for people living with HIV, according to which health professionals can reveal the HIV-positive status of the patient when, in their opinion, this would prevent further harm.

Based on Michel Foucault’s perspective, my research suggests the presence of gender and sexuality dispositives in the national HIV law, making confidentiality an ‘abstract legalism’ since it hinders the projection of formal norms sanctioned and promulgated in compliance with the National Constitution. This gives rise to impediments and limitations for inclusive intuitions to be effective and in force.

Additionally, I am a PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Freiburg in Germany. This research takes up the Foucauldian thesis that power expresses itself not only negatively but also positively. Thus, the research relies on this notion of power, implying that power implies ethical practices of subjectification. The case of the AIDS epidemic serves as a preferential site for a critical ontology of the present. In this sense, my research suggests that AIDS today is not only an incurable infectious disease with an often fatal outcome but also the beginning of a discourse. This discourse establishes a connection to a different way of life, characterized by danger, guilt, and death, sexuality, and threat.

In addressing this scenario and through an archaeogenealogical analysis, I propose to explore how and to what extent HIV infection and AIDS are significant events in the constitution of subjectivity for infected persons. In other words, how subjectivity is constituted under the condition of a terminal illness that is discredited and stigmatized in the social environment.