Risky Rhetoric: AIDS and the Cultural Practices of HIV Testing - Brossura

Scott, J. Blake

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0809324954 ISBN 13: 9780809324958

Casa editrice: Southern Illinois Univ Pr, 2014

Riassunto

Risky Rhetoric: AIDS and the Cultural Practices of HIV Testing is the first book-length study of the rhetoric inherent in and surrounding HIV testing. In addition to providing a history of HIV testing in the United States from 1985 to the present, J. Blake Scott explains how faulty arguments about testing’s power and effects have promoted unresponsive and even dangerous testing practices for so-called healthy subjects as well as those deemed risky.A new afterword to the paperback edition discusses changes in testing technology, treatments, and public health responses in the last ten years. The ultimate goal of Risky Rhetoric is to offer strategies to policy makers, HIV educators and test counselors, and other rhetors for developing more responsive and egalitarian testing-related rhetorics and practices.

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Informazioni sull'autore

J. Blake Scott is a professor of writing and rhetoric at the University of Central Florida. He is coeditor of The Megarhetorics of Global Development.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Southern Illinois Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0809324954
• ISBN 13: 9780809324958
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 285
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: Buchpark GmbH; gpsr@buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Germania