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""" In addition to a comprehensive history of HIV testing in the U.S., Scott provides an in-depth analysis of the politics and cultural practices of testing . . . . Clinicians, health care practitioners, educators, policy makers, and communication scholars will benefit from the thorough review of HIV testing and suggested new directions of research."" -- Choice ""This book has much to offer its reader, both politically and academically.""--Rhetoric and Public Affairs ""[This] book reminds us that rhetoric is an optimistic enterprise, hopeful about the potential for positive change. Risky Rhetoric reflects this faith in the transformative power of the strategic use of language.""--Rhetoric Society Quarterly"

Risky Rhetoric: AIDS and the Cultural Practices of HIV Testing makes a significant and much needed contribution to reawaken us to a new critical sensibility toward the politics of testing. There is no other book like it. --John N. Erni, author of Unstable Frontiers: Technomedicine and the Cultural Politics of Curing AIDS

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J. Blake Scott is an assistant professor of English at the University of Central Florida. He is the coauthor with Melody Bowdon of Service-Learning in Technical and Professional Communication.

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