Disclosure in health and illness [electronic resource] / edited by Mark Davis and Lenore Manderson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 diagnoses / 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.