Books in the Health Communication series

Inspired by work in positive psychology, this book gives scholarly attention to what's going right in people's communication lives. It harnesses a dispersed - but powerful - body of communication scholarship that has at its center a focus on building healthy communication contexts and generating wellness.

This book explores imagined interactions (IIs) as a type of self-therapy when dealing with stress and trauma.

This book explores imagined interactions (IIs) as a type of self-therapy when dealing with stress and trauma.

This book is an engaging personal narrative account detailing the author's experience of the first five years of living with, and adapting to, a degenerative and incurable eye disease which causes vision loss and blindness.

This book explores the processes and strategies involved in creating a health advocacy campaign to guide current and aspiring health advocates to successfully advocate for policy change.

This edited collection - the first of its kind - uses the framework of communication in order to understand the underlying dimensions of health disparities and the communicative processes, policies, methodologies, and messages that are deployed with the goal of increasing access, improving quality, and addressing the underlying causes.

Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, the volume includes state-of-the-art theories that can be applied to health communication interventions and practical guidelines about how to design, implement, and evaluate effective health communication interventions.

Featuring the work of top communication scholars, the volume advances theoretical knowledge, reviews state-of-the-art research, and shares new findings and insights on a variety of tobacco-related areas ranging from tobacco control efforts to corporate representations.

Featuring the work of top communication scholars, the volume advances theoretical knowledge, reviews state-of-the-art research, and shares new findings and insights on a variety of tobacco-related areas ranging from tobacco control efforts to corporate representations.

Using ethnographic research from two sites that offer emergency care and end-of-life care - a hospice and an emergency department - the author illustrates common themes around language use that serve as microcosms of the larger healthcare system in the United States.

This edited collection - the first of its kind - uses the framework of communication in order to understand the underlying dimensions of health disparities and the communicative processes, policies, methodologies, and messages that are deployed with the goal of increasing access, improving quality, and addressing the underlying causes.

This book offers insight into the uncharted waters of prescription drug information and promotion on the internet and suggests how it might be transformed into an unprecedented agent for good. The focus throughout is on practical outcomes: How can information for consumer decision making be optimized and how can consumers use it responsibly?

This volume presents state-of-the-art reporting on how to measure many of the key variables in health communication. Students, researchers, and policymakers will find this book an accessible resource for planning and reviewing research studies and proposals.

Family Communication, Connections, and Health Transitions

Family Communication, Connections, and Health Transitions

Communicating Pregnancy Loss is a collection of first-person narratives about the experience of pregnancy loss. The authors employ various feminist theories, narrative theories, and performance theories as well as other well-known communication theories and concepts.

Communicating Pregnancy Loss is a collection of first-person narratives about the experience of pregnancy loss. The authors employ various feminist theories, narrative theories, and performance theories as well as other well-known communication theories and concepts.

Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, the volume includes state-of-the-art theories that can be applied to health communication interventions and practical guidelines about how to design, implement, and evaluate effective health communication interventions.

A study of health information seeking has become increasingly important in recent years due to the growing emphasis on the consumer/client relationship in the health arena. It provides a comprehensive treatment of these issues appropriate for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, practitioners, and researchers.

Intercultural Health Communication brings together the fields of health and intercultural research in new work from leading communication scholars, employing critical, qualitative, and interpretive research methodologies in order to engage the political and intersectional nature of health and culture simultaneously.

Intercultural Health Communication brings together the fields of health and intercultural research in new work from leading communication scholars, employing critical, qualitative, and interpretive research methodologies in order to engage the political and intersectional nature of health and culture simultaneously.

Inspired by work in positive psychology, this book gives scholarly attention to what's going right in people's communication lives. It harnesses a dispersed - but powerful - body of communication scholarship that has at its center a focus on building healthy communication contexts and generating wellness.

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the influences of communication on physiology and physical health status occurring in a variety of contexts, from families, interpersonal relationships, and public speaking to sport fandom, affection, fear, and the escalation of conflict. It offers a broad and up-to-date review of the relevant literature in this area of study.

This volume presents state-of-the-art reporting on how to measure many of the key variables in health communication. Students, researchers, and policymakers will find this book an accessible resource for planning and reviewing research studies and proposals.