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 health and risk communication,...

   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 27th 2013 by Routledge
3. 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...

   To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
4. 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
5. 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
6. M-Health in Developing Countries

   Design and Implementation Perspectives on Using Mobiles in Healthcare

   By Arul Chib

   Series: Routledge Advances in Health and Social Policy

   The first book on m-health in developing countries, this volume is a comprehensive guide to the design and evaluation of m-health projects. Including original research in six countries and drawing on a wide range of international secondary material, it covers both theory and practice, elucidating...

   To Be Published March 30th 2014 by Routledge