Communicating Health A Culture-Centered Approach

Name: Communicating Health A Culture-Centered Approach
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ISBN: 9780745634920

ISBN-10: 0745634923

ISBN-13: 9780745634920

Edition: 2007

Authors: M. Dutta

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"Communicating Health: A Culture-Centered Approach" provides an overview of the role of culture in the study of health communication. The book introduces readers to the concept of culture and addresses the ways in which culture shapes, constructs, transforms and interacts with communication processes related to a variety of health experiences, interactions, and outcomes. The culture-centered approach offered in this book argues that communication theorizing ought to locate culture at the center of the communication process such that the theories are contextually embedded and co-constructed through dialogue with the cultural participants. The locally situated meanings of health are…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 2/4/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 282
Size: 7.75" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



List of Figures


List of Boxes


Glossary


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Culture in Health Communication



The Culture-Centered Approach to Health Communication



Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Culture



Culture, Identity, and Health



Pathways of Curing and Healing



Culture and Marginalization



Health Experiences in Marginalized Sectors



Culture, Social Capital, and Health



Culture and Resistance



Health, Culture, and Globalization



Culture as Praxis


References


Index