Health Communication Books

New and Published Books

1. Exploring Health Communication

   Language in Action

   By Kevin Harvey, Nelya Koteyko

   Series: Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics

   Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics is a series of introductory level textbooks covering the core topics in Applied Linguistics, primarily designed for those beginning postgraduate studies, or taking an introductory MA course as well as advanced undergraduates. Titles in the series are...

   Published August 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Rhetoric of Food

   Discourse, Materiality, and Power

   Edited by Joshua Frye, Michael Bruner

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   This book focuses on the rhetoric of food and the power dimensions that intersect this most fundamental but increasingly popular area of ideology and practice, including politics, culture, lifestyle, identity, advertising, environment, and economy. The essays visit a rich variety of dominant...

   Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
3. eHealth Applications

   Promising Strategies for Behavior Change

   Edited by Seth M. Noar, Nancy Grant Harrington

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   eHealth Applications: Promising Strategies for Behavior Change provides an overview of technological applications in contemporary health communication research, exploring the history and current uses of eHealth applications in disease prevention and management. This volume focuses on the use of...

   Published March 7th 2012 by Routledge
4. Aids

   A Communication Perspective

   Edited by Timothy Edgar, Mary Anne Fitzpatrick, Vicki S. Freimuth

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   Prevention through appropriate behavior is the best weapon available to fight further spread of HIV infection. However, individuals take necessary actions to prevent diseases such as AIDS only when they are properly informed and they feel motivated to respond to the information they possess. In...

   Published December 8th 2011 by Routledge
5. Negotiating the Crisis

   Drgs and the Transformation of Hospitals

   By Patricia Geist, Monica Hardesty

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   In 1984 Congress revamped Medicare to save a financially distraught health care system, thus transforming the hospital as an organization. Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) -- the cornerstone of this extensive reorganization -- have triggered repercussions that are still adversely affecting health...

   Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge
6. Bioethics, Public Moral Argument, and Social Responsibility

   Edited by Nancy M.P. King, Michael J Hyde

   Series: Routledge Annals of Bioethics

   Bioethics, Public Moral Argument, and Social Responsibility explores the role of democratically oriented argument in promoting public understanding and discussion of the benefits and burdens of biotechnological progress. The contributors examine moral and policy controversies surrounding biomedical...

   Published September 22nd 2011 by Routledge
7. The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication

   2nd Edition

   Edited by Teresa L. Thompson, Roxanne Parrott, Jon F. Nussbaum

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication brings together the current body of scholarly work in health communication. With its expansive scope, it offers an introduction for those new to this area, summarizes work for those already learned in the area, and suggests avenues for future research...

   Published April 26th 2011 by Routledge
8. HIV/AIDS, Health and the Media in China

   Imagined Immunity Through Racialized Disease

   By Johanna Hood

   Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

   Approximately 90% of urban HIV/AIDS education in China occurs indirectly through non-specialist media reports. Many of these reports use images of extreme suffering and poverty to communicate an understanding of who gets HIV, why and how. This book explores an important aspect of how HIV/AIDS is...

   Published January 31st 2011 by Routledge
9. Communicating to Manage Health and Illness

   Edited by Dale E Brashers, Daena Goldsmith

   Communicating to Manage Health and Illness is a valuable resource for those in the field of health and interpersonal communication, public health, medicine, and related health disciplines. This scholarly edited volume advances the theoretical bases of health communication in two key areas: 1)...

   Published June 23rd 2009 by Routledge
10. Routledge Handbook of Applied Communication Research

    Edited by Lawrence R. Frey, Kenneth N. Cissna

    Series: Routledge Communication Series

    The Routledge Handbook of Applied Communication Research provides a state-of-the-art review of communication scholarship that addresses real-world concerns, issues, and problems. This comprehensive examination of applied communication research, including its foundations, research methods employed,...

    Published June 9th 2009 by Routledge