Emerging Perspectives in Health Communication: Meaning, Culture, and Power
, by Zoller,HeatherNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780805861952 | 0805861955
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 4/1/2008
This collection highlights the changing landscape of health communication scholarship through its coverage of interpretive, cultural, and critical approaches to health communication research and practice. It introduces theoretical perspectives, methodological questions, and empirical evidence to demonstrate the importance of meaning construction, culture, power, inequality, participation and voice to our understanding of health discourse and everyday experience. Contributors actively engage with health problems in local, national and transnational contexts.