Written by an award-winning researcher and professor whose work straddles the fields of communication and healthcare,
Talking About Health explores the importance of health communication in the 21st century, and how it affects us all.
- Organized around six key questions about health and communication:  How ‘Normal’ am I? What are My ‘Risk’ Factors? Why Don’t We Get ‘Care’? Is the Public Good ‘Good’ for Me? Who Profits from My Health? and What’s Politics Got to Do with It?
- Provides readers with specific tools which which to better navigate the healthcare system
- Translates what we know about communication and health into useful guidelines for everyday practice
- Includes discussions of politics and healthcare, genetic testing, and alternative care
- The author's blog http://whyhealthcommunication.com/whc_blog/ focuses on why communicating about health can make a difference in our health and our quality of life
Preface.
1. Why Communicating about Health Matters.
It Answers the Question, Who Am I?
It Answers the Question, Who’s Responsible?
It Opens the Gate for Resources
It Promotes (Mis)Understanding
It Guides Effort, Emotion, and Excuse
Summing It Up …
2. How Normal Am I?
Compared to the Numbers
Compared to the Stories
When It Comes to Poor Health
When Choosing Alternative Treatments
When We Don’t Want to Know
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