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21. Safer Sex in Personal Relationships

    The Role of Sexual Scripts in HIV Infection and Prevention

    By Tara M. Emmers-Sommer, Mike Allen

    Series: LEA's Series on Personal Relationships

    This book focuses on safer sex discussion and practice in close, personal relationships, emphasizing research on individuals in personal relationship types that are experiencing a rise in HIV infection and AIDS. Moving beyond studies of gay adult males and IV drug-users, this work paints a clear...

    Published October 12th 2004 by Routledge
22. Religious Faith, Spirituality, and Health Communication

    A Special Issue of Health Communication

    Edited by Roxanne Parrott

    A primary premise of this special issue is that religious faith and spirituality comprise an integral component of lay discourse and lay theories associated with health. The articles included in this collection begin to fill a void and--at the same time--illustrate a role health communication...

    Published February 16th 2004 by Routledge
23. Handbook of Communication and Aging Research

    2nd Edition

    Edited by Jon F. Nussbaum, Justine Coupland

    This second edition of the Handbook of Communication and Aging Research captures the ever-changing and expanding domain of aging research. Since it was first recognized that there is more to social aging than demography, gerontology has needed a communication perspective. Like the first edition,...

    Published January 21st 2004 by Routledge
24. Entertainment-Education and Social Change

    History, Research, and Practice

    Edited by Arvind Singhal, Michael J. Cody, Everett M. Rogers, Miguel Sabido

    Series: Routledge Communication Series

    Entertainment-Education and Social Change introduces readers to entertainment-education (E-E) literature from multiple perspectives. This distinctive collection covers the history of entertainment-education, its applications in the United States and throughout the world, the multiple communication...

    Published October 31st 2003 by Routledge
25. Relational Communication

    An Interactional Perspective To the Study of Process and Form

    Edited by L. Edna Rogers, Valent¡n Escudero

    Series: LEA's Series on Personal Relationships

    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...

    Published October 31st 2003 by Routledge
26. Communication and Diversity in the Contemporary Family

    A Special Issue of the Journal of Family Communication

    Edited by Lynn H. Turner, Richard West

    This special issue examines family communication using a slightly different definition of the family, forming the beginning of a more expansive ideology of family life. Each paper examines family life via a cultural lens beyond white, middle-class nuclear families and represents a mosaic of unique,...

    Published September 30th 2003 by Routledge
27. Privacy and Disclosure of Hiv in interpersonal Relationships

    A Sourcebook for Researchers and Practitioners

    By Kathryn Greene, Valerian J. Derlega, Gust A. Yep, Sandra Petronio

    Series: Routledge Communication Series

    As the HIV epidemic enters its third decade, it remains one of the most pressing health issues of our time. Many aspects of the disease remain under-researched and inadequate attention has been given to the implications for the relationships and daily lives of those affected by HIV. Disclosing an...

    Published April 30th 2003 by Routledge
28. Cancer Communication and Aging

    A Special Issue of Health Communication

    Edited by Lisa Sparks

    This special issue stemmed from a Health, Communication, and Aging Research Symposium on Cancer Communication that examined health communication issues with an emphasis on older adults in cancer communication contexts. The various approaches to understanding cancer communication and aging described...

    Published March 31st 2003 by Routledge
29. Handbook of Communication and Social Interaction Skills

    Edited by John O. Greene, Brant R. Burleson

    Series: Routledge Communication Series

    Providing a thorough review and synthesis of work on communication skills and skill enhancement, this Handbook serves as a comprehensive and contemporary survey of theory and research on social interaction skills. Editors John O. Greene and Brant R. Burleson have brought together preeminent...

    Published December 31st 2002 by Routledge
30. Public Health Communication

    Evidence for Behavior Change

    Edited by Robert Hornik

    Series: Routledge Communication Series

    This volume argues the case that public health communication has affected health behavior. It brings together 16 studies of large-scale communication in a variety of substantive health areas--tobacco, drugs, AIDS, family planning, heart disease, childhood disease, highway safety--prepared by the...

    Published December 31st 2001 by Routledge