"Risky Rhetoric: AIDS and the Cultural Practices of HIV Testing "is the first book-length study of the rhetoric inherent in and surrounding HIV testing. In addition to providing a history of HIV testing in the United States from 1985 to the present, J. Blake Scott explains how faulty arguments about testing s power and effects have promoted unresponsive and even dangerous testing practices for so-called healthy subjects as well as those deemed risky.""A new afterword to the paperback edition discusses changes in testing technology, treatments, and public health responses in the last ten...