Health Communication Books

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1. Popular Media and Health Communication

   By Kimberly N. Kline, Jay Baglia

   February 2011 | 978-0-8058-6259-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Routledge Handbook of Health Communication, 2nd Edition

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

   The 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 on the...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-88315-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. HIV/AIDS, Health and the Media in China: Imagined immunity through racialized disease

   By Johanna Hood

   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 how HIV/AIDS is portrayed in China’s...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-47198-5 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Communicating to Manage Health and Illness

   By Dale 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)...

   June 2009 | 978-0-8058-4429-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Routledge Handbook of Applied Communication Research

   Edited by Lawrence R. Frey, Kenneth N. Cissna

   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,...

   June 2009 | 978-0-8058-4984-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Media Messages and Public Health: A Decisions Approach to Content Analysis

   Edited by Amy Jordan, Dale Kunkel, Jennifer Manganello, Martin Fishbein

   Media Messages and Public Health addresses the full range of methodological and conceptual issues involved in content analysis research, specifically focused on public health-related messages and behaviors. Uniquely tailored to the challenges faced by content researchers interested in the study of...

   2008 | 978-0-8058-6025-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Communication as Comfort: Multiple Voices in Palliative Care

   By Sandra L. Ragan, Elaine M. Wittenberg-Lyles, Joy Goldsmith, Sandra Sanchez-Reilly

   This exceptional work explores the complexities of communication at one of the most critical stages of the life experience--during advanced, serious illness and at the end of life. Challenging the predominantly biomedical model that informs much communication between seriously ill and/or dying...

   2008 | 978-0-8058-5809-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Communication Perspectives on HIV/AIDS for the 21st Century

   Edited by Timothy Edgar, Seth M. Noar, Vicki S. Freimuth

   Reflecting the current state of research into the communication aspects of HIV/AIDS, this volume explores AIDS-related communication scholarship, moving forward from the 1992 publication AIDS: A Communication Perspective. Editors Timothy Edgar, Seth M. Noar, and Vicki S. Freimuth have developed...

   2007 | 978-0-8058-5827-3 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Communicating at the End of Life: Finding Magic in the Mundane

   By Elissa Foster

   This enlightening volume provides first-hand perspectives and ethnographic research on communication at the end of life, a topic that has gone largely understudied in communication literature. Author Elissa Foster’s own experiences as a volunteer hospice caregiver form the basis of the book....

   2006 | 978-0-8058-5567-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    The Internet and Health Care: Theory, Research, and Practice

    Edited by Monica Murero, Ronald E. Rice

    The Internet and Health Care: Theory, Research, and Practice presents an in-depth introduction to the field of health care and the Internet, from international and interdisciplinary perspectives. It combines expertise in the areas of the social sciences, medicine, policy, and systems analysis. With...

    2006 | 978-0-8058-5815-0 | Paperback (Routledge)