Evaluating Women′s Health Messages
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Evaluating Women′s Health Messages

A Resource Book

  1. 459 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Evaluating Women′s Health Messages

A Resource Book

About this book

The increasing attention placed on women?s reproductive health issues in recent years has produced a corresponding interest in the role that communication plays--from promoting better health care to fostering greater well-being. Evaluating Women?s Health Messages is the first systematic examination of women?s health communication. Compiling the works of over 30 contributors, editors Roxanne Louisselle Parrott and Celeste Condit explore the various forms health messages take--medical, social scientific, and public--and the ways in which they compare with and contradict each other. The book is at once groundbreaking and comprehensive, examining the range of health issues from political, historical, technological, social support, and feminist perspectives--all within the broad framework of communication. With two chapters on each topic, the book provides a variety of perspectives on such issues as abortion, infertility, drug and alcohol use in pregnancy, childbirth, prenatal care, AIDS, breast cancer, reproductive technologies, menstruation, menopause, and hysterectomy. Evaluating Women?s Health Messages is a vital tool for every professional interested in women?s health concerns as well as students taking courses in health communication, woman?s health, public health, sociology of health, health education, and gender studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Chapter 1 - Introduction: Priorities and Agendas in Communicating about Women's Reproductive Health
  5. Part I - Political Agendas and Women's Reproductive Health Messages
  6. Chapter 2 - Medical and Psychological Consequences of Legal Abortion in the United States
  7. Chapter 3 - A Matter of Consequence: Abortion Rhetoric and Media Messages
  8. Chapter 4 - Illicit Drug Use and the Pregnant Woman: Prevalence, Social Impact, Effects, and Legislative Action
  9. Chapter 5 - The Drama of in Utero Drug Exposure: Fetus Takes First Billing
  10. Part II - Historical Issues in Communicating about Women's Reproductive Health
  11. Chapter 6 - Contraception and Clinical Science: The Place of Women in Reproductive Technology
  12. Chapter 7 - Our Bodies, Our Risk: Dilemmas in Contraceptive Information
  13. Chapter 8 - The American Experience of Childbirth: Toward a Range of Safe Choices
  14. Chapter 9 - Contemporary Birthing Practices: Technology over Humanity?
  15. Part III - A Fetal and Maternal Health Approach to Communicating about Women's Reproductive Health
  16. Chapter 10 - Women and Smoking: Consequences and Solutions
  17. Chapter 11 - Tugging at Pregnant Consumers: Competing "Smoke!" "Don't Smoke!" Media Messages and Their Messengers
  18. Chapter 12 - Prenatal Alcohol Consumption and Outcomes for Children: A Review of the Literature
  19. Chapter 13 - Knowing When to Say When and Why: Media Messages Aimed at Preventing Women's Alcohol Consumption
  20. Part IV - A Campaign Perspective for Communicating about Women's Reproductive Health
  21. Chapter 14 - Promoting Prenatal and Pregnancy Care to Women: Promises, Pitfalls, and Pratfalls
  22. Chapter 15 - Prenatal Care from the Woman's Perspective: A Thematic Analysis of the Newspaper Media
  23. Chapter 16 - Cervical, Ovarian, and Uterine Cancer: Advancing Awareness, Choices, and Survival
  24. Chapter 17 - Magic, Moralism, and Marginalization: Media Coverage of Cervical, Ovarian, and Uterine Cancer
  25. Part V - A Social Support Framework for Communicating about Women's Reproductive Health
  26. Chapter 18 - Menarche, Menstruation, and Menopause: The Communication of Information and Social Support
  27. Chapter 19 - Media Portrayals of Women's Menstrual Health Issues
  28. Chapter 20 - Social Support and Breast Cancer: Why do We Talk and to Whom do We Talk?
  29. Chapter 21 - An Analysis of Discourse Promoting Mammography: Pain, Promise, and Prevention
  30. Part VI - Contemporary Priorities in Communicating about Women's Reproductive Health
  31. Chapter 22 - Options and Risks with Reproductive Technologies
  32. Chapter 23 - Media Bias for Reproductive Technologies
  33. Chapter 24 - Hysterectomies: Don't Ask "Why Not?" . . . Ask "Why?"
  34. Chapter 25 - Hysterectomy: What the Popular Press Said (1986-1992)
  35. Chapter 26 - Women and AIDS: The Lost Population
  36. Chapter 27 - The Reconstruction of AIDS as a Women's Health Issue
  37. Chapter 28 - Conclusion: A Woman-Centered "Sense-Making" Approach to Communicating about Women's Reproductive Health
  38. Index
  39. About the Contributors