Introduction
Pills, Life, Agency - HIV Treatment Decisions as Language in Social Context - Alison Moore
Alison Moore [+]
University of Wollongong
Alison Moore is a Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She has degrees in linguistics and public health and has previously held research and teaching positions at Macquarie University and the University of Sydney. Ongoing research interests include systemic functional linguistics, modelling register and context, health discourse, and the representation and treatment of animals. Across these concerns a unifying theme is the construal of agency and identity. Alison is currently the Vice-President of the Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association and an editorial board member for the Journal of Animal Studies.
Description
Chapter 1 outlines the problems considered in this book and the lines of attack that will lead to some proposed solutions. It also situates the dataset in the historical context of HIV medicine and the influence of HIV medicine on clinical practice, by way of demonstrating the continued relevance of the material.