Language and HIV/Aids

Language and HIV/Aids / edited by Christina Higgins and Bonny Norton.

Focuses on the role of language in the construction of knowledge about HIV/AIDS in diverse regions of the world. This title draws on various forms of discourse analysis, ethnography, and social semiotics to interpret meaning-making practices in HIV/AIDS education in Australia, Cambodia, Burkina Faso...

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Other Authors: Higgins, Christina, Norton, Bonny, 1956-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol, UK : Uffalo [N.Y.] : Multilingual Matters, ©2010.
Series:Critical language and literacy studies.
Subjects:
AIDS (Disease) > Prevention > Study and teaching.
HIV infections > Prevention > Study and teaching.
Language and languages.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
Language and languages
AIDS (Disease) > Prevention > Study and teaching
HIV infections > Prevention > Study and teaching
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Lengths of life : stories of being with HIV / William Savage
  • Ugandan students' visual representations of health literacies : a focus on HIV/AIDS knowledge / Harriet Mutonyi and Maureen E. Kendrick
  • Is it safer to talk about sex in Spanish or English? : performing young adulthood in Oaxaca, Mexico / Ángeles Clemente and Michael J. Higgins
  • Safe sex, not so straightforward : intersubjective positioning in gay men's accounts of sexual exposure to HIV / Henrike Körner
  • Dangerous dogmas : AIDS, discourse and the rakhel system in India / Noushin Khushrushahi
  • Discursive constructions of responsibility in HIV/AIDS prevention : re-entextualization practices in Tanzania / Christina Higgins
  • Uganda's ABC program on HIV/AIDS prevention : a discursive site of struggle / Shelley Jones and Bonny Norton
  • Learning about AIDS online : identity and expertise on a gay Internet forum / Rodney H. Jones
  • Contextualizing local knowledge : reformulations in HIV/AIDS prevention in Burkina Faso / Martina Drescher
  • What difference does this make? : studying southern African youth as well as knowledge producers within a new literacy of HIV and AIDS / Claudia Mitchell [and others]
  • Articulations of knowing : NGOs and HIV-positive health in India / Mark Finn and Srikant Sarangi
  • Signs show the way : reading HIV prevention on the Andaman Islands / Annabelle Mooney.

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