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Routledge Post-AIDS Discourse in Health Communication 1st Edition 2021 Hardbound by Ambar Basu , Andrew R. Spieldenner , Patrick J. Dillon
This book will be a vital resource for researchers in the field of health communication, especially in the aftermath of COVID-19, as we begin confronting the reality of which countries can afford to declare an 'end to the pandemic', and which ones can'tA unique feature of this book is that its center and focus is on persons living with HIV - It highlights their experiences and voicesIt examines the discourse of a "post-AIDS" culture using a range of methodological tools, and the medical-discursive shift from crisis and death to survival and livingIt includes contributions from a diverse group of international scholars, and interrogates and engages with the cultural, social, political, scientific, historical, global, and local consumptions of the term "post-AIDS" from the perspective of meaning-making on health, illness, and well-beingThis book will be an essential read for scholars and students of health communication, sociology of health and illness, medical humanities, political science, and medical anthropology, as well as for policy makers and activists