Emerging Perspectives in Health Communication: Meaning, Culture, and Power

Zoller, HeatherM.; Dutta, Mohan J. (Edited by)

ISBN 10: 0805861955 / ISBN 13: 9780805861952

Editore: Routledge, 2008

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486 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket as issued. Back cover lower corner slightly bumped otherwise a fine copy. Codice articolo 2504092

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Titolo: Emerging Perspectives in Health ...

Casa editrice: Routledge

Data di pubblicazione: 2008

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: Near Fine

Edizione: 1st Edition

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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.

Informazioni sull?autore:

Heather M. Zoller (Ph.D., Purdue University) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Cincinnati. Her research in health and organizational communication focuses on the politics of public health, including corporate issue management and occupational health, community organizing/public participation, and health activism.

Mohan J. Dutta (Ph.D. University of Minnesota) is associate professor of health communication, public relations and mass media and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communication at Purdue University. Professor Dutta is the 2006 Lewis Donohew Outstanding Scholar in Health Communication and has received multiple research and teaching awards for his scholarly contributions. His research in health communication focuses on the culture-centered approach to health communication, politics of resistance in health, subaltern studies and postcolonial theories, and performance-based strategies of social change.