Health Communication and Sexual Health in India: Interpreting HIV and AIDS Messages

ISBN-13: 9781138574656 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 146 str.

Ravindra Kumar Vemula

Opis

This book examines the social construction of sexual health in India through an analysis of HIV and AIDS messages. The broad objective of the chapters is to trace the growth and evolution of the concept of sexual health from a health communication perspective and to understand the role of the state in determining its form and structure.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Sexual Health Communication: Policies and practices 2. Politics of Sexual Health Communication: Perspectives 3. Sexual Health: Mainstreaming Taboos, and Mediating Social Construction 4. HIV & AIDS Messages: Social Construction of Sexual Health in India 5. Social Construction of Masculinity: Condomisation of Sexual Health 6. Social Construction of Sexual Citizenship

O autorze

Ravindra Kumar Vemula is Associate Professor & Head, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, The English and Foreign Languages University, Shillong, India. His research interests are in development communication, health communication with special interest in HIV and AIDS, new media, communication policy and analysis. He has published extensively in indexed international journals and books. He is the co-chair of the HIV & AIDS and Communication Working Group of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). His latest book is Health Communication in the Changing Media Landscape: Perspectives from Developing Countries (2016).