| Risky Rhetoric: AIDS and the Cultural Practices of HIV Testing Contributor(s): Scott, John Blake (Author) |
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ISBN: 0809324954 ISBN-13: 9780809324958 Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press OUR PRICE: $38.61 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Aids & Hiv - Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric |
| Dewey: 616.979 |
| LCCN: 2014022803 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.90 lbs) 300 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |