Case Studies in Communication and Disenfranchisement: Applications To Social Health Issues

by Ray,Eileen Berlin

• ISBN13: 9780805816754
• ISBN10: 0805816755
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1996-08-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

See blurb for Communication and Disenfranchisement. Books will be promoted together.

Table of Contents

Contributors	xi	(4)
Introduction	xv
I ISSUES RELATED TO POLITICS AND SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS	3	(56)
1 Defending Identity: Courage and Compromise in Radical Right Contexts	3	(12)
Lynette Seccombe Eastland
2 Conflicting Voices: Homelessness in America	15	(16)
Katherine Miller
3 From Pedagogy to Praxis: Affecting Communication in an Inner-City AIDS Clinic	31	(14)
John Kahler
Barbara F. Sharf
4 "I Just Can't Afford It": Overcoming Barriers Facing Women Living in Poverty	45	(14)
Alicia A. Marshall
Janet K. McKeon
II ISSUES RELATED TO FAMILY	59	(50)
5 The Baby Shower: Rituals of Public and Private Joy and Sorrow	59	(16)
Fredi Avalos-C'deBaca
Patricia Geist
Julie L. Gray
Ginger Hill
6 Coping With Adolescent Cancer: One Family's Experience	75	(12)
Deborah S. Bllard-Reisch
Jennifer Price
7 Divorce Mediation: Balancing the Scales of Justice?	87	(12)
Jill E. Rudd
Daniel P. Joyce
8 Elder Care: Different Paths Within an Extended American Family	99	(10)
Jon F. Nussbaum
Lisa Sparks
Mark Bergstrom
III ISSUES RELATED TO ABUSE	109	(56)
9 Responses to Rape: The Contextualization of Violence Against Women	109	(18)
Sara Aleman
Melissa Lavitt
10 When the Protector Is the Abuser: Effects of Incest on Adult Survivors	127	(14)
Eileen Berlin Ray
11 To Love, Honor, and Obey: One Women's Narrative of Intimate Violence	141	(10)
Lisa Kanae
James T. West
12 Sexual Harassment: Raising Consciousness and Sharing Solutions	151	(14)
Timothy J. Hack
Robin P. Clair
IV ISSUES RELATED TO HEALTH CONCERNS	165	(108)
13 Without AIDS: A Gay Man Dies	165	(14)
Frederick C. Corey
14 Living With HIV and AIDS: Personal Accounts of Coping	179	(16)
Sandra Metts
Heather Manns
15 "Stripping You of Everything You Ever Held Dear to Your Heart": The Many Losses of Women With HIV/AIDS	195	(20)
Rebecca J. Welch Cline
Nelya J. McKenzie
16 "But I Don't Know What to Say to Her": Communication With the Terminally Ill	215	(12)
Teresa L. Thompson
17 Trouble at Laster Enterprises: Managing Alcohol Problems in a Work Environment	227	(16)
Richard W. Thomas
David R. Seibold
18 Working With Disabilities: The Case of the Job Finders Club	243	(14)
Gerianne M. Johnson
Terrance L. Albrecht
19 "I Am a Person First": Different Perspectives on the Communication of Persons With Disabilities	257	(16)
Dawn O. Braithwaite
Author Index	273	(4)
Subject Index	277