Emerging Perspectives in Health Communication Meaning, Culture, and Power [Hardcover]

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.

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 Particls´