1st Edition

Disclosure in Health and Illness

Edited By Mark Davis, Lenore Manderson Copyright 2012
212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

Disclosure is a frequently used but rarely interrogated concept in health and social welfare. Abuse, disability, sexuality and health status can be ‘disclosed’ to peers and professionals, and on some occasions, disclosure is a requirement and not a choice. This innovative collection examines the new social and political implications of disclosure practices in health and illness. We make our... Read more

1. Telling Points  Lenore Manderson  2. Stories Told in Passing? Disclosure in Narratives of Everyday Lives in Andhra Pradesh  Janet Boddy  3. Being HIV Positive: A Phenomenology of HIV Disclosure in Swaziland  Robin Root  4. Emotional Talk: Depression, Diagnosis and Disclosure  Renata Kokanovic and Brigid Philip  5. HIV/STI Prevention Technologies and ‘Strategic (In)Visibilities’  Mark Davis and Paul Flowers  6. Is It ‘Disclosure’? Rethinking Tellings of Genetic Diagnosis  Devin Flaherty, H. Mabel Preloran and Carole H. Browner  7. Disclosure as Method, Disclosure as Dilemma  Matthew Wolf-Meyer  8. Transsexual Women’s Strategies of Disclosure and Social Geographies of Knowledge  Muriel Vernon  9. HIV Disclosure: Practices, Knowledges and Ethics  Corinne Squire  10. Contours of Truth  Mark Davis and Lenore Manderson

Biography

Mark Davis is Senior Lecturer in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University, Australia.

Lenore Manderson is Professor in the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.  She was formerly Professor of Medical Anthropology at Monash University, Australia, and is editor of the international journal, Medical Anthropology.