Communicating About HIV/AIDS: Taboo Topics and Difficult Conversations
	Quantity in Basket:none Code: 978-1-61289-084-5 Price:$57.50 Title: Communicating About HIV/AIDS Sub-title: Taboo Topics and Difficult Conversations Editor(s): Kandi L. Walker, Joy L. Hart, and Margaret U. D’Silva Publish Date: September 2012 Pages: 248 Format: Cloth
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Incorporating chapters by some of the top researchers in communication, this book covers communication work specific to difficult conversations and challenging issues surrounding HIV/AIDS. The chapters include new theoretical frameworks, reviews of current research, and descriptions of ongoing research efforts from communication perspectives. Woven throughout the book is research that focuses on difficulties and challenges associated with communication about HIV/AIDS. The editors believe disseminating information about these communicative issues can help create a culture where attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors work together to reduce the number of people infected with HIV/AIDS as well as help individuals already infected more easily and effectively communicate with others. The hope is that these chapters will positively influence discussions about relational and sexual issues between partners and community discussions about social norms, stigma, and cultural perceptions of HIV/AIDS. Contents: Acknowledgments. Introduction: Traversing Taboo Topics and Dissecting Difficult Decisions, Margaret U. D’Silva, Kandi L. Walker, Joy L. Hart and Allan W. Futrell. PART I: IN CULTURE. Narratizing Risk: HIV Performativity and the Communication of Desire, Ragan Fox. Conversations with Low-Income, African-American Women and Men: Critical Reflections on Sexuality, Risk Behavior, and HIV/AIDS, Seth M Noar, Elizabeth Webb, Stephanie Van Stee, Sonja Feist-Price, Richard Crosby, and Adewale Troutman. Visibility, Recognition, and Taboo: AIDS Art as a Vehicle for Confronting Stigma, Stephanie Houston Grey. PART II: IN RELATIONSHIPS. On the HIV Serodiscordant Romantic Relationship, David A. Moskowitz and Michael E. Roloff. Managing the Boundaries of a Life with HIV: Culture and Disclosure, Mike Allen, Tara M. Emmers-Sommer, Erin Sahlstein, and Kathleen Valde. Talking to Everyone but the One: Communication about Sex and the Transmission of HIV/AIDS, Carey Noland and Janet MacLennan. PART III: IN CONVERSATIONS. Communicating Under the Influence: HIV/AIDS Risk and Alcohol Consumption, Jennifer L. Monahan, Jessica Domby, and Pamela J. Lannutti. College Students’ Descriptions of Conflicts during Safer Sex Talk: Managing Challenging, Intimate Conversations, Patricia Amason, Lynne M. Webb, and Paula K. Agee. HIV/AIDS, Stigma, and Communication, Rachel A. Smith, Kelly Rossetto, and Brittany L. Peterson. Context, Communication, and HIV/AIDS: A Culture-Centered Approach to Taboo Topics and Difficult Decisions, Mohan J. Dutta. Notes on Contributors. Author Index. Subject Index.