Evaluating Women's Health Messages

The increased attention currently being paid to women's reproductive health issues has produced a corresponding interest in the role that communication plays in promoting better health care. Groundbreaking and comprehensive, this book is the first systematic examination of the major types and forms of messages about women's reproductive health - medical, social scientific and public - and the degree to which these messages compare with and contradict each other. Within the broad framework of communication, a range of women's health issues are examined in this book from political, historical, technological and feminist perspectives. The issues examined include: abortion; infertility; drug and alcohol use in pregnancy; childbirth; AIDS; menstruation and menopause.

Introduction: Priorities and Agendas in Communicating about Women's Reproductive Health
PART ONE: POLITICAL AGENDAS AND WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH MESSAGES - Diane Helene Miller
Medical and Psychological Consequences of /f003Legal/f001 Abortion in the United States - Diane Helene Miller
A Matter of Consequence
Abortion Rhetoric and Media Messages - Robert Lemieux
Illicit Drug Use and the Pregnant Woman
The Prevalance, Social Impact, Effects and Legislative Action - Kimberly N Kline
The Drama of /f003in utero/f001 Drug Exposure
Fetus Takes First Billing
PART TWO: HISTORICAL ISSUES IN COMMUNICATING ABOUT WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH - Susan Owen and Sally Caudill
Contraception and Clinical Science
Constructing Woman's Place - Martha Solomon, Mary Anne Trasciatti and Cynthia P King
Our Bodies, Our Risk
Dilemmas in Contraceptive Information - Elizabeth Jean Nelson
The American Experience of Childbirth
Toward a Range of Safe Choices - Helen M Sterk
Contemporary Birthing Practices
Technology over Humanity?
PART THREE: A FETAL AND MATERNAL HEALTH APPROACH TO COMMUNICATING ABOUT WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH - Michael Pfau, Margot L Nelson and Mary Moster
Women and Smoking
Consequences and Solutions - Deirdre M Condit
Tugging at Pregnant Consumers
Competing 'Don't Smoke!' 'Do Smoke!' Media Messages and Their Messengers - Joan Marie Kraft
Prenatal Alcohol Consumption and Outcomes for Children
A Review of the Literature - Kathryn J French, Theresa D Frasier and C Jay Frasier
Knowing When to Say When and Why
Media Messages Aimed at Preventing Women's Alcohol Consumption
PART FOUR: A CAMPAIGN PERSPECTIVE FOR COMMUNICATING ABOUT WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH - Roxanne Louiselle Parrott and Margaret Daniels
Promoting Pregnancy and Prenatal Care to Women
Promises, Pitfalls, and Pratfalls - Margaret Daniels annd Roxanne Louiselle Parrott
Prenatal Care from a Woman's Perspective
A Thematic Analysis of the Newspaper Media - Melanie A Williams
Cervical, Ovarian, and Uterine Cancer
Advancing Awareness, Choices, and Survival - Michele Kilgore
Magic, Moralism and Marginalization
Media Coverage of Cervical, Ovarian, and Uterine Cancer
PART FIVE: A SOCIAL SUPPORT FRAMEWORK FOR COMMUNICATING ABOUT WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH - Pamela J Kalbfleisch and Karen H Bonnel
Menarche, Menstruation, and Menopause
The Communication of Information and Social Support - Pamela J Kalbfleisch, Karen H Bennel and Tina M Harris
Media Portrayals of Women's Menstrual Health Issues - Maureen P Keeley
Social Support and Breast Cancer
Why Do We Talk and To Whom Do We Talk? - Mary L Kahl and Joan Lawrence-Bauer
An Analysis of Discourse Promoting Mammography
Pain, Promise, and Prevention
PART SIX: CONTEMPORARY PRIORITIES IN COMMUNICATING ABOUT WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH - Lisa Flores
Options and Risks with Reproductive Technologies - Celeste M Condit
Media Bias for Reproductive Technologies - Cathey S Ross
Hysterectomies
Don't Ask 'Why Not?': Ask 'Why?' - E M I Sefcovic
Hysterectomy
What the Popular Press Said (1986-1992) - Rebecca J Welch Cline and Neyla J McKenzie
Women and AIDS
The Lost Population - Salome Raheim
The Reconstruction of AIDS as a Womens's Health Issue - Roxanne Louiselle Parrott
CONCLUSION
A Woman-Centered 'Sense-Making' Approach to Communicating about Women's Reproductive Health

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