Intercultural Health Communication
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Intercultural Health Communication

  1. 364 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Intercultural Health Communication

About this book

Intercultural Health Communication brings together the fields of health and intercultural research in new work from leading communication scholars. This book is based on two premises: neither health nor culture is a neutral concept. The authors of this collection employ critical, qualitative, and interpretive research methodologies in order to engage the political and intersectional nature of health and culture simultaneously. Changing notions of healthy behaviors (or ill health) are not just a matter of knowledge; they live inside discourses about the body, aesthetics, science, and the world. We see this book as an important step towards developing a more transnational view of health communication. Intercultural Health Communication ties together the critical public health with critical intercultural communication. Through these connections, the authors engage the health research in, amongst others: HIV, cancer, trauma, celiac disease, radioactive pollution, food politics, and prenatal care. Intercultural Health Communication emerges from a broad need to address connections and challenges to incorporating health communication with intercultural communication approaches. After compiling this book, we see ready connections to public health, global studies, gender and sexuality studies and ethnic studies. In this day and age, nation states have to be considered within the broader frameworks of globalization, transnationalism and global health. We recognize that the contemporary health issues require an understanding of culture as integral towards eliminating health disparities.

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Yes, you can access Intercultural Health Communication by Andrew R. Spieldenner, Satoshi Toyosaki, Gary L. Kreps, Satoshi Toyosaki, Andrew R. Spieldenner in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Communication Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction:Intercultural HealthCommunication Studies (Andrew R. Spieldenner, Gloria N. Pindi, and Satoshi Toyosaki)
  4. Part1: Engaging Interdisciplinary Approaches: Analysis, Interpretation, Critique, and Action
  5. Part 2: Engaging Selfhoods: Contextual Complexity between Biomedical and Cultural Narratives
  6. Part 3: Engaging Communities: Communal Complexity, Identity Politics, and Advocacy
  7. Part 4: Engaging Borders: Intercultural Complexity, Identity Politics, and Advocacy
  8. Part 5: Engaging Classrooms: Meaningful Complexity of Teaching and Learning
  9. About the Contributors
  10. Index