Emerging perspectives in health communication : meaning, culture, and power / edited by Heather M. Zoller and Mohan J. Dutta.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zoller, Heather M.

Dutta, Mohan J.

Series:

LEA's communication series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in public health.

Health promotion.

Delivery of Health Care.

Communication.

Health Promotion.

Medical Subjects:

Delivery of Health Care.

Communication.

Health Promotion.

Physical Description:

viii, 486 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2008.

Summary:

This collection highlights the changing landscape of health communication scholarship through its coverage of interpretive, cultural, and critical approaches to health communication research and practice. It introduces theoretical perspectives, methodological questions, and empirical evidence to demonstrate the importance of meaning construction, culture, power, inequality, participation and voice to our understanding of health discourse and everyday experience. Contributors actively engage with health problems in local, national and transnational contexts.

This distinctive volume serves as a catalyst for future study, presenting the latest research by top scholars in health and popular discourse; culturally-based health promotion; medical communication; and health policy. It provides a rich foundation for scholars who seek to use interpretive, critical or cultural frameworks in academic and applied health communication settings. It will be a key resource for health communication scholars, researchers, and students as well as interpretive, cultural, and critical communication scholars and graduate students. It will also appeal to scholars and practitioners in the allied health areas.

Contents:

Theoretical foundations : interpretive, critical, and cultural approaches to health communication / Mohan J. Dutta and Heather M. Zoller

Let me tell you a story : narratives and narration in health communication research / Cecilia Bosticco and Teresa L. Thompson

Supporting breastfeeding(?) : nursing mothers' resistance to and accommodation of medical and social discourses / Emily T. Cripe

Communicating healing holistically / Patricia Geist-Martin, Barbara Sharf, and Natalie Jeha

'You feel so responsible' : Australian mothers' concepts and experiences related to promoting the health and development of their young children / Deborah Lupton

Destigmatizing leprosy : implications for communication theory and practice / Srinivas R. Melkote, Pradeep Krishnatray, and Sangeeta Krishnatray

Teach-with-stories method for prenatal education : using photonovels and a participatory with Latinos / Susan J. Auger, Mary E. DeCoster, and Melida D. Colindres

Ethical paradoxes in community-based participatory research / Virginia M. McDermott, John G. Oetzel, and Kalvin White

Voces de las colonias : dialectical tensions about control and cultural identification in Latinas' communication about cancer / Melinda Villagran, Dorothy Collins, and Sara Garcia

El poder y la fuerza de la pasión : toward a model of HIV/AIDS education and service delivery from the "bottom-up" / Ariana Ochoa Camacho ... [et al.]

Interrogating the radio communication project in Nepal : the participatory framing of colonization / Mohan J. Dutta and Iccha Basnyat

Contested streams of action : power and deference in emergency medicine / Alexandra G. Murphy ... [et al.]

Changing realities and entrenched norms in dialysis : a case study of power, knowledge, and communication in health-care delivery / Laura L. Ellingson

Changing lanes and changing lives : the shifting scenes and continuity of care of a mobile health clinic / Lynn M. Harter ... [et al.]

The paradox of pharmaceutical empowerment : healthology and online health public relations / Ashli Quesinberry Stokes

Dealing drugs on the border : power and policy in pharmaceutical reimportation debates / Charles Conrad and Denise Jodlowski

Technologies of neoliberal governmentality : the discursive influence of global economic policies on public health / Heather M. Zoller

The paradox of "fair trade" : the influence of neoliberal trade agreements on food security and health / Rebecca DeSouza ... [et al.]

Globalization, social justice movements, and the human genome diversity debates : a case study in health activism / Rulon Wood, Damon M. Hall, and Marouf Hasian Jr.

Emerging agendas in health communciation and the challenge of multiple perspectives / Heather M. Zoller and Mohan J. Dutta.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780805861952

0805861955

9781410615503

1410615502

OCLC:

173201714