Communication and Disenfranchisement: Social Health Issues and Implications

by Ray,Eileen Berlin

• ISBN13: 9780805815313
• ISBN10: 0805815317
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1996-08-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume and its companion case studies book deal with some of the people, groups, and classes who are living a disenfranchised existence in the United States. Whether through birth, life events, or unfortunate circumstances, they are denied full privileges, rights, and power within the existing societal structure. Centered around societal health problems as they relate to socioeconomic status, family, abuse, and health concerns, these volumes examine salient issues from several theoretical frameworks, including feminist theory and the social construction of reality. Communication and Disenfranchisementprovides theory-based essays on topics such as the homeless, adult survivors of sexual assault, battered women, persons with disabilities, impoverished women, the indigent living in the inner city, persons with HIV/AIDS, the terminally ill, and the elderly. Case Studies in Communication and Disenfranchisementprovides parallel case studies, applying the issues and concepts discussed in the essays. Used together, these books provide theoretically-based applications of social health issues within a communication framework. Traditionally, health communication research has emphasized the communication-physical health relationship. Inadvertently, this primary focus has restricted what information has been included under the domain of health communication. These books expand that domain by examining how the communication-disenfranchisement relationship is accomplished, managed, and overcome, and by recognizing the significance of the pragmatic and theoretic implications of this inquiry.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. xi
Introduction	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xx
References	p. xxi
Conceptual Orientations To Disenfranchisement	p. 1
Feminism and the Disenfranchised Listening Beyond the ""Other""	p. 3
References	p. 26
What Counts as Real? A Constitutive View of Communication and the Disenfranchised in the Context of Health	p. 29
References	p. 44
Identities in Crisis Individualism, Disenfranchisement and the Self-Help Culture	p. 45
References	p. 57
The Reconstruction of Identity Strategies of the Oregon Citizens Alliance	p. 59
References	p. 74
Issues Related To Socioeconomic Status	p. 77
Gimme Shelter The Communication of America's Homeless	p. 79
References	p. 92
Victims of the Franchise A Culturally Sensitive Model of Teaching Patient-Doctor Communication in the Inner City	p. 95
References	p. 114
A Research Agenda on Issues Affecting Poor and Minority Women A Model for Understanding Their Health Needs	p. 117
Acknowledgments	p. 132
References	p. 132
Reaching the ""Unreachables"" Educating and Motivating Women Living in Poverty	p. 137
References	p. 154
Issues Related To Family	p. 157
Silent Tragedy/Social Stigma Coping With the Pain of Infertility	p. 159
References	p. 180
Coping With Alienation Fear, and Isolation The Disenfranchisement of Adolescents With Cancer and Their Families	p. 185
Acknowledgment	p. 204
References	p. 205
Divorce Mediation One Step Forward or Two Steps Back?	p. 209
References	p. 217
Institutionalized Elderly Interactive Implications of Long-Term Care	p. 219
References	p. 228
Issues Related To Abuse	p. 231
Femist Approaches to Sexual Violence A Discursive Analysis	p. 233
Acknowledgments	p. 269
References	p. 270
Challenging the Stigmatizing Messages: The Emerging Voices of Adult Survivors of Incest	p. 273
References	p. 289
Communication and Abused Women Empowering Their Voices and Exposing the Ideological Constraints	p. 293
References	p. 311
Discourse and Disenfranchisement Targets, Victims, and Survivors of Sexual Harassment	p. 313
References	p. 326
Issues Related To Health Concerns	p. 329
Gay Men and Their Physicians Discourse and Disenfranchisement	p. 331
References	p. 344
Coping With HIV and AIDS The Social and Personal Challenges	p. 347
References	p. 362
HIVIAIDS, Women, and Threads of Discrimination: A Tapestry of Disenfranchisement	p. 365
References	p. 382
Allowing Dignity Communication With the Dying	p. 387
References	p. 401
Communicating With Alcoholics A Strategic Influence Approach to Personal Intervention	p. 405
References	p. 427
Supportive Structures for Persons With Disability Smoothing or Smothering the Way?	p. 433
References	p. 445
""Persons First"" Expanding Communicative Choices by Persons With Disabilities	p. 449
References	p. 462
Author Index	p. 465
Subject Index	p. 481
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