Forthcoming Health Communication Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Health and Risk Communication

   An Applied Linguistic Perspective

   By Rodney Jones

   Health and Risk Communication provides a critical and comprehensive overview of the core issues surrounding health and risk communication from the perspective of applied linguistics. It outlines the ways applied linguistics differs from other methods of understanding to health and risk...

   To Be Published May 13th 2013 by Routledge
2. Health and Medical Public Relations

   By Myc Riggulsford

   Health and Medical Public Relations takes a fresh look at media relations and news values. It examines how information about medical research from the academic, pharmaceutical and charitable sectors is disseminated to target audiences through a variety of PR techniques. Scrutinising a wide range of...

   To Be Published May 29th 2013 by Routledge
3. Research Methods in Health Communication

   Edited by Bryan B. Whaley

   This volume provides an overview of primary research methods as they apply to health communication inquiry. Editor Bryan B. Whaley assembles top health comm researchers to write about their primary methodological areas, offering guidance and insights for various approaches to answering research...

   To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. The Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication

   Edited by Heidi Hamilton, Wen-ying Sylvia Chou

   Series: Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics

   To Be Published January 4th 2014 by Routledge