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  • Post-AIDS Discourse in Health Communication

    Sociocultural Interpretations

    Edited by Ambar Basu, Andrew R. Spieldenner, Patrick J. Dillon ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Health Communication
    This book examines the discourse of a "post-AIDS" culture, and the medical-discursive shift from crisis and death to survival and living. Contributions from a diverse group of international scholars interrogate and engage with the cultural, social, political, scientific, historical, global, and local consumptions of the term "post-AIDS" from the perspective of meaning-making on health, illness, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Narrating Patienthood

    Engaging Diverse Voices on Health, Communication, and the Patient Experience

    by Ashley M. Archiopoli, Ann D. Bagchi, Ambar Basu, Russell Brewer, Gina Brown, Laura Brown, Barbara Cardell, Katherine M. Castle, Joyeeta Dastidar, Crystal Daugherty, Meta Smith Davis0, Patrick Dillon1, Ari Hampton2, Adam Hayden3, Elizabeth A. Hintz4, Krista Hoffman-Longtin5, Alexis Zoe Johnson6, Vanessa Johnson7, Jody Kellas8, Peter M. Kellett0, Andrea Meluch1, Jennifer E. Ohs2, Mark P. Orbe3, Dwight Peavy4, Rachel M. Reznik5, Laurel Sprague6, Jill Yamasaki7, Amanda J. Young8, Dr, Prof Andrew Spieldenner9, Maria K. Venetis0 ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Health Communication
    Diversity plays an important role in how people experience illness and healthcare as patients. Listening carefully to stories of how race, class, age, gender, sexuality, and disability can affect patient experience can be revealing and provide much needed change to health communication in the patienthood narrative. This book is a collection of vibrant and engaging essays by scholars of narrative ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Critical Health Communication

    Theory and Practice

    Edited by Shaunak Sastry, Heather M. Zoller, Ambar Basu ...
    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.In health communication, critical approaches highlight the role of communication in constituting, reinforcing, and resisting inequitable power relations that underlie the sociocultural ... Read more

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  • Emerging Perspectives in Health Communication

    Meaning, Culture, and Power

    by Heather Zoller, Mohan J. Dutta ...
    This volume provides the theoretical, methodological, and praxis-driven issues in research on interpretive, critical, and cultural approaches to health communication. It includes an international collection of contributors, and highlights non-traditional (non-Western) perspectives on health communication. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Geographies of Women's Health

    Place, Diversity and Difference

    Edited by Nancy Davis Lewis, Isabel Dyck, Sara McLafferty ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies of Women and Place
    This international collection explores the relationships between society, place, gender and health, and how these play out in different parts of the world. The chapters work together in examining the complex layering of social, economic and political relations that frame women's health. The authors demonstrate that women's health needs to be understood 'in place' if gains are to be made in ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Sexual Health: A Public Health Perspective

    by Kaye Wellings, Larry Bencze, Erminia Pedretti ...
    This key textbook provides a firm grounding in theoretical and practical aspects of the study of sexual health for both undergraduates and post-graduates. ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Narrative Ethics in Public Health: The Value of Stories

    Edited by Drue H. Barrett, Leonard W. Ortmann, Stephanie A. Larson ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This Open Access book illustrates the power of stories to illuminate ethical concerns that arise in public health. It complements epidemiological or surveillance evidence, and reveals stakeholder perspectives crucial for public health practitioners to develop effective and ethical public health interventions. Because it relies on the natural and universal appeal of stories, the book also serves to ... Read more

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  • Global Citizenship Education: A Critical Introduction to Key Concepts and Debates

    by Edda Sant, Lynette Shultz, Dr Ian Davies, Dr Karen Pashby ...
    Global Citizenship Education explores key ideas and issues within local, national and global dimensions. Including examples and case studies from across the world, the authors draw on ideas, experiences and histories within and beyond 'the West' to contribute to multifaceted perspectives on global citizenship education.In concise chapters, the authors set out the key concepts and debates within ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • A Companion to Medical Anthropology

    Edited by Merrill Singer, Pamela I. Erickson ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
    A Companion to Medical Anthropology examines the current issues, controversies, and state of the field in medical anthropology today.Provides an expert view of the major topics and themes to concern the discipline since its founding in the 1960sWritten by leading international scholars in medical anthropologyCovers environmental health, global health, biotechnology, syndemics, nutrition, substance ... Read more

    $48.00 USD

  • Occupational Science

    Society, Inclusion, Participation

    Edited by Gail E. Whiteford, Clare Hocking ...
    Occupational Science: Society, Inclusion, Participation is the must have resource for occupational therapists, occupational scientists, students and researchers. The book begins with a comprehensive review of the current literature and the knowledge generated to date. Reasons for the field's limited impact are proposed, including its focus on individuals rather than groups and communities, its ... Read more

    $53.00 USD

  • Handbook of HIV and Social Work

    Principles, Practice, and Populations

    by Cynthia Cannon Poindexter ...
    Praise for Handbook of HIV and Social Work"Cynthia Cannon Poindexter has given us a remarkable edited volume that contains much information on HIV that every professional social worker needs to know in order to practice competently in today's complex world."—From the Foreword by Vincent J. Lynch, MSW, PhD, Boston College Graduate School of Social Work"This comprehensive handbook assembles a group ... Read more

    $51.00 USD

  • Care and Capitalism

    by Kathleen Lynch ...
    The logics and ethics of neoliberal capitalism dominate public discourses and politics in the early twenty-first century. They morally endorse and institutionalize forms of competitive self-interest that jettison social justice values, and are deeply antithetical to love, care and solidarity.But capitalism is neither invincible nor inevitable. While people are self-interested, they are not purely ... Read more

    $23.00 USD