
Beyond These Walls
Readings in Health Communication
Linda C. Lederman(Editor)
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 11. December 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
448 pages
978-0-19-533250-6 (ISBN)
Description
Beyond These Walls is an invaluable collection of foundational and cutting-edge readings from top scholars in the rapidly growing area of health communication. This innovative anthology demonstrates that health care and communication about health often take place at home, at work, at school, and in recreational and social settings--not just in doctors' offices and hospitals.
Editor Linda C. Lederman has compiled essays that--through a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches--investigate the following diverse topics:
* The historical background of health communication
* The development of patient-provider communication as a key object of study
* The prevalence of health promotion and other persuasive messages in public and individual health
* The importance of social support offered inside and outside of traditional medical experiences
* The growing importance of media literacy, particularly in a rapidly expanding information age
* The increasingly relevant relationship between health communication and the organizations that help construct it
* The future of health communication
Other subjects covered include the effects of socio-political and organizational structures on health communication, the impact of the Internet, and narrative as a significant conceptual approach to understanding health and illness.
Individual chapter introductions draw students' attention to key points in each reading, and discussion questions--designed to encourage critical thinking--follow each article. A unique topical matrix, which identifies relevant subject categories in each chapter, places the research within the larger context of health communication.
Editor Linda C. Lederman has compiled essays that--through a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches--investigate the following diverse topics:
* The historical background of health communication
* The development of patient-provider communication as a key object of study
* The prevalence of health promotion and other persuasive messages in public and individual health
* The importance of social support offered inside and outside of traditional medical experiences
* The growing importance of media literacy, particularly in a rapidly expanding information age
* The increasingly relevant relationship between health communication and the organizations that help construct it
* The future of health communication
Other subjects covered include the effects of socio-political and organizational structures on health communication, the impact of the Internet, and narrative as a significant conceptual approach to understanding health and illness.
Individual chapter introductions draw students' attention to key points in each reading, and discussion questions--designed to encourage critical thinking--follow each article. A unique topical matrix, which identifies relevant subject categories in each chapter, places the research within the larger context of health communication.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 234 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
726 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-533250-6 (9780195332506)
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Person
Linda C. Lederman is Director of the Institute for Social Science Research at Arizona State University and Professor of Communication in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication. She is author and coauthor of more than a dozen books, including Communication Theory: A Casebook Approach (2005), Changing the Culture of College Drinking: A Socially Situated Health (2005), and Voices of Recovery, a collection of stories by people who began their recovery from alcoholism while undergraduates at Rutgers.
Content
PART I: HEALTH COMMUNICATION: HISTORY AND CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES; PART II: PATIENT PROVIDER COMMUNICATION; PART III: THE CHANGING ROLE OF PATIENTS IN HEALTH CARE; PART IV: HEALTH COMMUNICATION IN ORGANIZATIONS, GROUPS, AND TEAMS; PART V: BEYOND HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS: SOCIAL SUPPORT; PART VI: HEALTH PROMOTION; PART VII: MEDIA LITERACY AND HEALTH ISSUES