Full Description
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 underly the sociocultural and structural barriers to well-being. This book highlights the theoretical and practical contributions of critical health communication to allow readers to gain in-depth understanding of the tools and methods required to conduct critical research. It includes a broad array of approaches to health communication scholarship such as rhetorical, feminist, anti-racist and intersectional perspectives. Chapters present research from a variety of international and local contexts addressing medical and public health challenges and center issues of power, resistance, voice, and social change from marginalized perspectives.
Outlining the centrality of critical approaches to theorizing and practicing health communication in more equitable, ethical, and effective ways, this book will be of interest to scholars and graduate students in health communication, critical and cultural communication, as well as other health-related courses.
Contents
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 Violence: A 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
