Emerging Perspectives in Health Communication : Meaning, Culture, and Power

by Zoller, Heather; Dutta, Mohan J.

• ISBN13: 9780203891223
• ISBN10: 0203891228
• Copyright: 2008-03-31
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

This volume provides the theoretical, methodological, and praxis-driven issues in research on interpretive, critical, and cultural approaches to health communication. It includes an international collection of contributors, and highlights non-traditional (non-Western) perspectives on health communication.

Table of Contents

Part I: Overview of Interpretive, Critical and Cultural Approaches to Health Communication Mohan J. Dutta and Heather M. Zoller Chapter 1: Theoretical and methodological issues Part II. Popular Discourse and Constructions of Health and HEALING Mohan J. Dutta and Heather M. Zoller Introduction Cecilia Bosticco and Teresa L. Thompson: Chapter 2: Let Me Tell You a Story: Narratives and Narration in Health and Illness Emily T. Cripe: Chapter 3: Supporting Breastfeeding (?): Nursing Mothers' Resistance to and Accommodation of Medical and Social Discourses Patricia Geist-Martin, Barbara Sharf, and Natalie Jeha: Chapter 4: "Communicating Healing Holistically" Deborah Lupton: Chapter 5: 'You Feel so Responsible: Australian Mothers' Concepts and Experiences Related to Promoting the Health and Development of Their Young Children Srinivas R. Melkote, Pradeep Krishnatray, and Sangeeta Krishnatray: Chapter 6: Destigmatizing Leprosy: Implications for Communication Theory and Practice Part III. Culturally Based Health Promotion Mohan J. Dutta and Heather M. Zoller Introduction Susan Auger and Mary E. DeCoster, and Melida Colindres: Chapter 7: Teach with Stories: Using Photonovels for Prenatal Education among Latino Women Virginia M. McDermott, John G. Oetzel, and Kalvin White: Chapter 8: Ethical Paradoxes in Community-Based Participatory Research Melinda M. Villagran, Dorothy Collins, and Sara Garcia: Chapter 9: Voces de Las Colonias: Dialectical Tensions about Control and Cultural Identification in Latinas' Communication about Cancer Ariana Ochoa Camacho, Gust A. Yep, Prado Y. Gomez, and Elissa Velez: Chapter 10: "El Poder y La Fuerza de la Pasiòn": Towards a Model of HIV/AIDS Education and Service Delivery From the "Bottom-Up" Mohan Dutta and Iccha Basnyat Chapter 11: Interrogating the Radio Communication Project in Nepal: The Participatory Framing of Colonization Part IV. Medical Communication Heather M. Zoller and Mohan J. Dutta Introduction Alexandra Murphy, Eric Eisenberg, Robert Wears, and Shawna J. Perry: Chapter 12: Streams of action: Power, Authority, and Deference in Emergency Medicine Laura L. Ellingson: Chapter 13: Changing Realities and Entrenched Norms in Dialysis: A Case Study of Power, Knowledge, and Communication in Health Care Delivery Lynn M. Harter, Karen Deardorff, Pamela Kenniston, Heather Carmack, Elizabeth Rattine-Flaherty: Chapter 14: Changing Lanes and Changing Lives: The Shifting Scenes and Continuity of Care of a Mobile Health Clinic Ashli Quesinberry Stokes: Chapter 15: The Paradox of Pharmaceutical Empowerment: Healthology and Online Health Public Relations Part IV. Communication & Health Policy Heather M. Zoller and Mohan J. Dutta Introduction Charles Conrad and Denise Jodlowski: Chapter 16: Dealing Drugs on the Border: Power and Policy in Pharmaceutical Reimportation Debates Heather Zoller: Chapter 17: Technologies of Neoliberal Governmentality: The Discursive Influence of Global Economic Policies on Public Health Rebecca DeSouza, Ambar Basu, Induk Kim, Iccha Basnyat, Mohan J. Dutta: Chapter 18: The Paradox of "Fair Trade": The Influence of Neoliberal Trade Agreements on Food Security and Health Rulon Wood, Damon M. Hall, and Marouf Hasian, Jr.: Chapter 19: Globalization, Social Justice Movements, and the Human Genome Diversity Debates Part V. AFTERWARD Heather M. Zoller and Mohan J. Dutta Emerging Agendas in Theory, Research, and Practice and the Challenge of Multiple Perspectives