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42 produkter
Why Wellness Sells
Natural Health in a Pharmaceutical Culture
Inbunden, 2023
670 kr
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How and why the idea of wellness holds such rhetorical—and harmful—power.In Why Wellness Sells, Colleen Derkatch examines why the concept of wellness holds such rhetorical power in contemporary culture. Public interest in wellness is driven by two opposing philosophies of health that cycle into and …
Doing Dignity
Ethical Praxis and the Politics of Care
Inbunden, 2024
652 kr
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Explores human dignity and care in the face of disease and disability.Complex contemporary experiences with disease, death, and disability in the United States have made the concept of human dignity seem outdated. In Doing Dignity: Ethical Praxis and the Politics of Care, Christa Teston challenges …
Doing Gender Justice
Queering Reproduction, Kin, and Care
Av Shui-yin Sharon Yam, Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz
Häftad, 2025
422 kr
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How reproductive justice birth workers and queer parents build kinships and care relations that resist oppressive structures.Anti-trans policies that restrict the boundaries of gender, reproduction, and family formation are a dangerous form of reproductive injustice with grave impacts on trans, …
Back-Alley Abortion
A Rhetorical History
Inbunden, 2025
769 kr
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Examines how "back-alley abortion" rhetoric shaped public memory, reproductive politics, and advocacy in the fight for abortion rights.Winner of the 2026 Outstanding Book Award by the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language & GenderHow did three words come to carry the weight of …
Humanitarian Health Communication
Häftad, 2027
683 kr
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A new perspective on humanitarian communication that recognizes refugees as partners in designing care, trust, and resilience.Humanitarian work is often measured in supplies delivered, policies enacted, or crises averted. Yet some of its most meaningful work happens through everyday acts of …
Family Communication, Connections, and Health Transitions
Going Through This Together
Inbunden, 2010
1720 kr
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When family members experience a diagnosis of a chronic disease (e.g., cancer) or a health crisis (e.g., postpartum depression), not only the diagnosed individuals but entire families experience immediate and long-term stress as a consequence. Families with members dealing with serious health …
Health Information Seeking
Av J. David Johnson, Donald O. Case
Häftad, 2012
466 kr
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The 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. This trend implies a shift away from the development of health campaigns with one unitary message to a recognition that …
Health Information Seeking
Av J. David Johnson, Donald O. Case
Inbunden, 2012
1705 kr
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The 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. This trend implies a shift away from the development of health campaigns with one unitary message to a recognition that …
Health Communication
Strategies for Developing Global Health Programs
Häftad, 2013
520 kr
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Promotion of healthy behaviors and prevention of disease are inextricably linked to cultural understandings of health and well-being. Health communication scholarship and practice can substantially and strategically contribute to people living safer, healthier, and happier lives. This book …
Health Communication
Strategies for Developing Global Health Programs
Av Do Kyun Kim, Arvind Singhal m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
1967 kr
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Promotion of healthy behaviors and prevention of disease are inextricably linked to cultural understandings of health and well-being. Health communication scholarship and practice can substantially and strategically contribute to people living safer, healthier, and happier lives. This book …
Reducing Health Disparities
Communication Interventions
Av Mohan J. Dutta, Gary L. Kreps
Häftad, 2013
538 kr
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Over the last five decades, the gap between the haves and have-nots has consistently increased in the realm of access to healthcare services among different sectors of society: from quality of healthcare services, access to health supplies, technologies, and usage of health information and health …
Reducing Health Disparities
Communication Interventions
Av Mohan J. Dutta, Gary L. Kreps
Inbunden, 2013
1921 kr
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Over the last five decades, the gap between the haves and have-nots has consistently increased in the realm of access to healthcare services among different sectors of society: from quality of healthcare services, access to health supplies, technologies, and usage of health information and health …
Influence of Communication on Physiology and Health
Av James M. Honeycutt, Chris R. Sawyer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
1009 kr
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There is a significant amount of research that substantiates the connection between social support/relationships and the development, onset, and/or recovery of several physical diseases/illnesses. Research has shown, for example, that an unhappy marriage can increase the likelihood of becoming ill …
Communicating Pregnancy Loss
Narrative as a Method for Change
Av Rachel Silverman, Jay Baglia
Häftad, 2014
527 kr
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This book is the Winner of the OSCLG Outstanding Book AwardThe loss of a desired pregnancy or the inability to experience pregnancy are intensely personal phenomena; these losses are also, in our culture at least, extremely private. Communicating Pregnancy Loss is a collection of first-person …
Communicating Pregnancy Loss
Narrative as a Method for Change
Av Rachel Silverman, Jay Baglia
Inbunden, 2014
2085 kr
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This book is the Winner of the OSCLG Outstanding Book AwardThe loss of a desired pregnancy or the inability to experience pregnancy are intensely personal phenomena; these losses are also, in our culture at least, extremely private. Communicating Pregnancy Loss is a collection of first-person …
Health Advocacy
A Communication Approach
Av Marifran Mattson, Chervin Lam
Inbunden, 2015
1039 kr
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There is growing emphasis in Health Communication on the study of communication processes that aim to change systems, policies, beliefs, attitudes, and/or behaviors for the betterment of the health of individuals and communities. Engagement on behalf of individual and community health is the basis …
Screenful of Sugar?
Prescription Drug Websites Investigated
Av Jon C. Schommer, Lewis H. Glinert
Häftad, 2014
490 kr
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With drug information rapidly migrating to the Web, the chronically poor standards of drug information available to consumers in the developed and the developing world are being further compromised. This book offers insight into the uncharted waters of prescription drug information and promotion on …
Screenful of Sugar?
Prescription Drug Websites Investigated
Av Jon C. Schommer, Lewis H. Glinert
Inbunden, 2014
1932 kr
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With drug information rapidly migrating to the Web, the chronically poor standards of drug information available to consumers in the developed and the developing world are being further compromised. This book offers insight into the uncharted waters of prescription drug information and promotion on …
Health Communication Research Measures
Av Do Kyun Kim, James W. Dearing
Häftad, 2015
480 kr
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This volume presents state-of-the-art reporting on how to measure many of the key variables in health communication. While the focus is on quantitative measures, the editors argue that these measures are centrally important to the study of health communication. The chapters emphasize constructs, …
Health Communication Research Measures
Av Do Kyun Kim, James W. Dearing
Inbunden, 2015
1770 kr
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This volume presents state-of-the-art reporting on how to measure many of the key variables in health communication. While the focus is on quantitative measures, the editors argue that these measures are centrally important to the study of health communication. The chapters emphasize constructs, …
Patienthood and Communication
A Personal Narrative of Eye Disease and Vision Loss
Av Peter M. Kellett, Gary L. Kreps
Häftad, 2017
662 kr
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Patienthood and Communication is an engagingly personal narrative detailing the author’s experience living with, and adapting to, a degenerative and incurable eye disease (MacTel). Beyond the personal, this poignant story more broadly illustrates the ways in which communication enables individuals …
Patienthood and Communication
A Personal Narrative of Eye Disease and Vision Loss
Av Peter M. Kellett, Gary L. Kreps
Inbunden, 2017
1139 kr
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Patienthood and Communication is an engagingly personal narrative detailing the author’s experience living with, and adapting to, a degenerative and incurable eye disease (MacTel). Beyond the personal, this poignant story more broadly illustrates the ways in which communication enables individuals …
Promoting Mental Health Through Imagery and Imagined Interactions
Inbunden, 2019
1282 kr
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Imagined interactions (IIs) can be used as a type of self-therapy when dealing with stress and trauma. We often have IIs in terms of flashbacks as portrayed in movies. It is hoped that this volume will inspire some people to use IIs as a type of self-therapy and to realize that having IIs in …
Promoting Mental Health Through Imagery and Imagined Interactions
Häftad, 2019
476 kr
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Imagined interactions (IIs) can be used as a type of self-therapy when dealing with stress and trauma. We often have IIs in terms of flashbacks as portrayed in movies. It is hoped that this volume will inspire some people to use IIs as a type of self-therapy and to realize that having IIs in …
Intercultural Health Communication
Av Andrew R. Spieldenner, Satoshi Toyosaki
Inbunden, 2020
1534 kr
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Intercultural Health Communication brings together the fields of health and intercultural research in new work from leading communication scholars. This book is based on two premises: neither health nor culture is a neutral concept. The authors of this collection employ critical, qualitative, and …
Intercultural Health Communication
Av Andrew R. Spieldenner, Satoshi Toyosaki
Häftad, 2020
694 kr
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Intercultural Health Communication brings together the fields of health and intercultural research in new work from leading communication scholars. This book is based on two premises: neither health nor culture is a neutral concept. The authors of this collection employ critical, qualitative, and …
Viktor E. Frankl Goes to Community College
How Creating Meaning May Save Your Life
Av Janet Farrell Leontiou, Gary L. Kreps
Inbunden, 2022
1131 kr
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One of the main causes for the hopelessness that drives some to thoughts of suicide is meaninglessness. This work invites the reader to create a life full of meaning by attending to words. The emphasis here is on the power of the word. When we shift into a different relationship with words, we …
Viktor E. Frankl Goes to Community College
How Creating Meaning May Save Your Life
Av Janet Farrell Leontiou, Gary L. Kreps
Häftad, 2022
457 kr
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One of the main causes for the hopelessness that drives some to thoughts of suicide is meaninglessness. This work invites the reader to create a life full of meaning by attending to words. The emphasis here is on the power of the word. When we shift into a different relationship with words, we …
Media & Mental Health
Using Mass Media to Reduce the Stigma of Mental Illness
Av Scott Parrott, Gary L. Kreps
Inbunden, 2023
1146 kr
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The mass media are an important source of information about mental health, yet television shows, news stories, social media posts, and other media fare often perpetuate stereotypes and misunderstandings about mental illness. For 70 years, scholars in media studies, psychology, sociology, and other …
Media & Mental Health
Using Mass Media to Reduce the Stigma of Mental Illness
Av Scott Parrott, Gary L. Kreps
Häftad, 2023
426 kr
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The mass media are an important source of information about mental health, yet television shows, news stories, social media posts, and other media fare often perpetuate stereotypes and misunderstandings about mental illness. For 70 years, scholars in media studies, psychology, sociology, and other …
