Critical Health Communication

Theory and Practice
Herausgeber: Sastry, Shaunak; Basu, Ambar; Zoller, Heather M

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers strong rationales for adopting a critical view of health communication by demonstrating how theories and critical practices can be enriched by foregrounding issues of power, politics, and culture. It will appeal to scholars and graduate students in health communication, critical and cultural communication, and more

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9781032725536
• ISBN-10: 1032725532
• Artikelnr.: 75666371

Autorenporträt

Shaunak Sastry is Professor of Communication in the School of Communication, Film, & Media Studies and Provost's Fellow at the University of Cincinnati, USA. Dr. Sastry is the second Vice-President of the National Communication Association (NCA). His award-winning health communication research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, and he currently is Co-Principal Investigator and co-lead of the Community Engagement Core of the Cincinnati Center for Climate Change and Health. He is also a former Senior Editor of the journal Health Communication and sits on the editorial board of several leading academic journals. Heather M. Zoller is a Professor in the School of Communication, Film, & Media Studies at the University of Cincinnati, USA. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Applied Communication Research and former Senior Editor at Health Communication. She co-edited Emerging Perspectives in Health Communication: Meaning, Culture, & Power (Routledge, 2008) and serves on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on PPE with NIOSH. Ambar Basu is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida, USA. He is a co-editor of Post-AIDS Discourse in Health Communication (Routledge, 2021). He has served as Senior Editor for Health Communication, and he co-edits a Routledge book series titled Critical Cultural Studies in Global Health Communication.

Inhaltsangabe

1. From Symptoms to Transformation: Addressing the Root Causes of Hunger
through Critical Health Communication 2. Reproductive Injustice,
Feminicides, and the Intersections of Critical Health Communication and
Journalism Praxis 3. God, country, and family: A risk orders theory
approach to deconstructing health messages about family planning in the
Latine community 4. Communicating Structural ViolenceA Case Study of
Entertainment Establishment Women Workers in Kathmandu, Nepal 5. Critical
Pragmatism and the Politics of the Possible: Communicating for Critically
Holistic Health in the Workplace and Beyond 6. HIV interventions,
collectivization efforts, and citizenship on the margins of the state in
India 7. Navigating the Terrain: Applying Critical Health Communication
Methods to Participatory Action Praxis with Black Women Farmers 8.
Biocriticism in a Time of Precarity: Inventional Resources for Critical
Health Communication 9. Culture-centered Approach as Critical Health
Practice: The Body as Resistance 10. Decolonizing Health Communication:
Reflections on Critical Health Communication Research in Nigeria 11.
Journeys in critical health communication: meditations on being/becoming
CCA scholars 12. New Light: Critical Health Communication and Connections
to Experiences from the Field