Communication: Health Communication

By Elaine Hsieh

This book focuses on interpreter-mediated medical encounters and focuses primarily on the phenomenon of bilingual health care. It highlights the interactive and coordinated nature of interpreter-mediated interactions. Elaine Hsieh has put together over 15 hours of interpreter-mediated medical…

Paperback – 2016-02-05 
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By Matthew W. Kreuter, David W. Farrell

Through the use of new technologies, researchers, and practitioners in health education and health communication can now provide health information and behavior change strategies that are customized based on the unique needs, interests, and concerns of different individuals. These tailored health…

Paperback – 2015-12-31 
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Edited by Annette Madlock Gatison

This volume explores the conditions under which women are empowered, and feel entitled, to make the health decisions that are best for them. At its core, it illuminates how the most basic element of communication, voice, has been summarily suppressed for entire groups of women when it comes to…

Hardback – 2015-12-07 
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Routledge Research in Health Communication

Edited by Tyler R. Harrison, Elizabeth A. Williams

Organizations, Communication, and Health focuses on theories and constructs of organizational communication and their relationship to health. The goal of the volume is to offer a current picture of organizational and organizing processes and practices related to health. Research in the area of…

Paperback – 2015-11-18 
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By Stephen M. Croucher

This book offers students a comprehensive, theoretical, and practical guide to communication theory. Croucher defines the various perspectives on communication theory—the social scientific, interpretive, and critical approaches—and then takes on the theories themselves, with topics including…

Paperback – 2015-08-25
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By Russell Willerton

Plain Language and Ethical Action examines and evaluates principles and practices of plain language that technical content producers can apply to meet their audiences’ needs in an ethical way. Applying the BUROC framework (Bureaucratic, Unfamiliar, Rights-Oriented, and Critical) to identify…

Paperback – 2015-06-15
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ATTW Series in Technical and Professional Communication

Edited by Mary Lee Hummert, Jon F. Nussbaum

This collection highlights the current efforts by scholars and researchers to understand the aging process as it relates to the health of older adults. With contributions from international scholars in communication, psychology, public health, medicine, nursing, and other areas, this volume…

Paperback – 2015-05-07
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Edited by L. Edna Rogers, Valent¡n Escudero

Relational Communication: An Interactional Perspective to the Study of Process and Form brings together in one volume a full treatment of the relational communication perspective on the study of relationships. This perspective takes to heart the formative nature of communication by focusing on the…

Paperback – 2015-04-23
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LEA's Series on Personal Relationships

Edited by John C. Pollock

This book is the first collection of original research to explore links between demographics and media coverage of emerging human rights issues. It covers cross-national reporting on human trafficking, HIV/AIDS, water contamination, and child labour; and same-sex marriage, Guantanamo detainee…

Hardback – 2015-03-26
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Edited by William N. Elwood

In this single volume, William N. Elwood has gathered potent evidence of the impact that the HIV/AIDS epidemic has had on the world, its communities, and its inhabitants, and he addresses the role of communication in affecting the way in which people respond to AIDS. With a multidisciplinary group…

Paperback – 2015-02-27
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Edited by Michael Grabowski

This volume explores how advances in the fields of evolutionary neuroscience and cognitive psychology are informing media studies with a better understanding of how humans perceive, think and experience emotion within mediated environments. The book highlights interdisciplinary and…

Hardback – 2014-12-17
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Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

Edited by Nancy Grant Harrington

Health Communication provides coverage of the major areas of interest in the field of health communication, including interpersonal, organizational, and health media. It takes an in-depth approach to health communication research by analyzing and critically evaluating research conducted across…

Paperback – 2014-09-09
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