Communication: Health Communication

By Darren Powell

This book explores how corporations fund, devise and implement various programmes in schools as ‘part of the solution’ to childhood obesity. Drawing on data from across the globe, it shows how children, teachers, school leaders and external providers (both public and private), understand and…

Paperback – 2018-10-10 
Routledge
Critical Studies in Health and Education

By Kathleen M. Galvin, Dawn O. Braithwaite, Paul Schrodt

Family Communication: Cohesion and Change encourages students to think critically about family interaction patterns and to analyze them using a variety of communication theories.　 Using a framework of family functions, current research, and first-person narratives, this text emphasizes the…

Paperback – 2018-09-20 
Routledge

By Elizabeth Angeli

Rhetorical Work in Emergency Medical Services: Communicating in the Unpredictable Workplace details how communicators harness the power of rhetoric to make decisions and communicate in unpredictable contexts. Grounded in a 16-month study in the EMS workplace, this text contributes to our…

Paperback – 2018-08-21 
Routledge
ATTW Series in Technical and Professional Communication

By Christine Davis, Deborah Breede

Talking Through Death examines communication at the end-of-life from several different communication perspectives: interpersonal (patient, provider, family), mediated, and cultural. By studying interpersonal and family communication, cultural media, funeral related rituals, religious and cultural…

Hardback – 2018-07-05 
Routledge

Edited by H. Dan O'Hair

Broadcast media has a particular fascination with stories that involve risk and health crisis events—disease outbreaks, terrorist acts, and natural disasters—contexts where risk and health communication play a critical role. An evolving media landscape introduces both challenges and opportunities…

Hardback – 2018-02-05
Focal Press
Electronic Media Research Series

Edited by Michael Grabowski

This volume explores how advances in the fields of evolutionary neuroscience and cognitive psychology are informing media studies with a better understanding of how humans perceive, think and experience emotion within mediated environments. The book highlights interdisciplinary and…

Paperback – 2018-02-05
Routledge
Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

By Christine Davis

Kevin is a sometimes-violent teenager with severe emotional disturbance in a family environment of poverty and stress. In this ethnography of a children's mental health care team, communication scholar Christine S. Davis delves deeply into how members of the team create hope for themselves, for…

Paperback – 2018-01-12
Routledge

Edited by Annette Madlock Gatison

This volume explores the conditions under which women are empowered, and feel entitled, to make the health decisions that are best for them. At its core, it illuminates how the most basic element of communication, voice, has been summarily suppressed for entire groups of women when it comes to…

Paperback – 2018-01-03
Routledge

By Elena Semino, Zsófia Demjén, Andrew Hardie, Sheila Payne, Paul Rayson

This book presents the methodology, findings and implications of a large-scale corpus-based study of the metaphors used to talk about cancer and the end of life (including care at the end of life) in the UK. It focuses on metaphor as a central linguistic and cognitive tool that is frequently used…

Hardback – 2017-12-11
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics

Edited by Han Yu, Kathryn M. Northcut

This book addresses the roles and challenges of people who communicate science, who work with scientists, and who teach STEM majors how to write. In terms of practice and theory, chapters address themes encountered by scientists and communicators, including ethical challenges, visual displays, and…

Hardback – 2017-09-25
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Culture

Edited by Yuping Mao, Rukhsana Ahmed

Both international and internal migration brings new challenges to public health systems. This book aims to critically review theoretical frameworks and literature, as well as discuss new practices and lessons related to culture, migration, and health communication in different countries. It…

Hardback – 2017-09-21
Routledge
Routledge Research in Health Communication

By Viorela Dan

Much of framing scholarship focuses either exclusively on the analysis of words or of visuals. This book aims to address this gap by proposing a six-step approach to the analysis of verbal frames, visual frames and the interplay between them—an integrative framing analysis. This approach is then…

Hardback – 2017-09-21
Routledge
Routledge Research in Communication Studies