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Health Communication: Theory and Practice
by Dianne Berry. 152 pgs.

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List of Figures

Series Editors' Preface

Preface

1: Introduction to Health Communication

2: Basic Forms of Communication

3: Underlying Theories and Models

4: Communication between Patients and Health Professionals

5: Communicating with Particular Populations in Healthcare

6: Communication of Difficult Information and in Difficult Circumstances

7: Health Promotion and Communicating with the Wider Public

8: Communication Skills Training

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Case Studies in Health Communication
by Eileen Berlin Ray. 312 pgs.

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Communication Textbook Series

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Part I Issues In Medical Training

Part Ii Issues In Caregiver-Recipient Roles

Part Iii Issues In Medical Care

Chapter 8: Denying Patient Autonomy: Seeking Second Opinions in A Health Crisis

Part Iv Issues In Social Support

Chapter 13: Caring for the Caregivers: Intraorganizational Stress And Support Issues in A Health-Care Organization

Part V Issues In Cultural Dynamics

Chapter 15: The Management Of Mrs. Suzuki's Miscarriage: Communication and Social Relationships in Japan

Chapter 16: Is It Better Across the Border?: Comparing Health Care in Mexico And the United States

Part Vi Issues In Health-Care Delivery

Chapter 18: Challenges to Feminist Rights In Health-Care Systems: A Case of Social Justice In Work and Caregiving

Part Vii Issues In Information Dissemination

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Doctors Talking with Patients/Patients Talking with Doctors: Improving Communication in Medical Visits
by Debra L. Roter, Judith A. Hall. 210 pgs.

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Verbal and non-verbal exchanges during medical visits are seen by Roter and Hall as having highly significant impacts on the doctor-patient relationship and the efficacy of health care. The effectiveness, indeed the appropriateness, of medical care is itself impacted by the social and psychological processes involved as doctor and patient meet. Roter and Hall analyze how a number of important factors can tend to condition both doctors and patients to roles that then can become barriers to a positive relationship. They detail principles and approaches that will improve the medical visit experience for both doctor and patient.

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Part I The Nature of the Doctor-Patient Relationship

1: The Significance of Talk

2: Models of the Doctor-Patient Relationship

3: The Influence of Patient Characteristics on Communication between the Doctor and the Patient

4: The Influence of Physician Characteristics on Communication between the Docto r and the Patient

Part II What Usually Happens in Medical Visits

5: Patterns of Talk in the Medical Visit

6: Giving and Withholding Information: The Special Case of Informative Talk in t he Medical Visit

Part III Prospects for Improved Talk

7: Talk and the Quality of Care

8: Consequences of Talk: The Relationship of Talk to Patient Outcomes

9: Improving Talk through Interventions

Part IV Conclusions

10: Toward a Healthier Medical Visit

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Explaining Illness: Research, Theory, and Strategies
by Bryan B. Whaley. 360 pgs.

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Foreword

REFERENCES

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I: FOUNDATIONAL THEORETICAL ISSUES

1: The Nature and Language of Illness Explanations

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2: Managing Uncertainty in Illness Explanation: An Application of Problematic Integration Theory

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3: Explaining Illness Through the Mass Media: The Problem-Solving Perspective

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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4: Explaining Illness as Bad News: Individual Differences in Explaining Illness-Related Information

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II: POPULATIONS AND NEW SOURCES OF EXPLANATION

5: Explaining Illness to Patients with Limited Literacy

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6: Explaining Illness: An Examination of Message Strategies and Gender

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7: Explaining Illness to Older Adults: The Complexities of the Provider-Patient Interaction as We Age

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8: Explaining Illness to Children: Theory, Strategies, and Future Inquiry

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9: Pharmacists' New Communicative Role: Explaining Illness and Medicine to Patients

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III: COCULTURAL ISSUES AND EXPLAINING ILLNESS

10: Native Americans Explaining Illness: Storytelling as Illness Experience

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11: Explaining Illness to Latinos: Cultural Foundations and Messages

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APPENDIX A: USING INTERPRETERS TO EXPLAIN ILLNESS

12: Explaining Illness to Asian and Pacific Islander Americans: Culture, Communication, and Boundary Regulation

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13: Explaining Illness to African Americans: Employing Cultural Concerns with Stra tegies

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14: Commentary and Continued Concerns

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Health Care Communication Using Personality Type: Patients Are Different!
by Judy Allen, Susan A. Brock. 214 pgs.

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This work draws upon examples from everyday health care situations to demonstrate that the behaviour differences we all experience in others actually fit within a readily understandable framework (the Myers-briggs Type Indicator).

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1: Communication, Health Care and the Perspective of Type

2: Introducing Flex Care

3: Seeing Type Preference in Action

4: Using a Knowledge of Psychological Type When Breaking Bad News

5: Adherence - Encouraging Patients to Follow Clinical Advice

6: Working Together

7: Type - a Tool for Personal and Professional Development

8: Creating Committed Action

9: Next Steps

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Bibliography

Index
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Communication and Disenfranchisement: Social Health Issues and Implications
by Eileen Berlin Ray. 485 pgs.

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Introduction

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PART I: CONCEPTUAL ORIENTATIONS TO DISENFRANCHISEMENT

1: Feminism and the Disenfranchised: Listening Beyond the "Other"

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2: What Counts as Real?: A Constitutive View of Communication and the Disenfranchised in the Context of Health

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3: Identities in Crisis: Individualism, Disenfranchisement, and the Self-Help Culture

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4: The Reconstruction of Identity: Strategies of the Oregon Citizens Alliance

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PART II: ISSUES RELATED TO SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS

5: Gimme Shelter: The Communication of America's Homeless

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6: Victims of the Franchise: A Culturally Sensitive Model of Teaching Patient-Doctor Communication in the Inner City

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7: A Research Agenda on Issues Affecting Poor and Minority Women: A Model for Understanding Their Health Needs

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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8: Reaching the "Unreachables": Educating and Motivating Women Living in Poverty

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PART III: ISSUES RELATED TO FAMILY

9: Silent Tragedy/Social Stigma: Coping With the Pain of Infertility

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10: Coping With Alienation, Fear, and Isolation: The Disenfranchisement of Adolescents With Cancer and Their Families

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

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11: Divorce Mediation: One Step Forward or Two Steps Back?

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12: Institutionalized Elderly: Interactive Implications of Long-Term Care

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PART IV: ISSUES RELATED TO ABUSE

13: Femist Approaches to Sexual Violence: A Discursive Analysis

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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14: Challenging the Stigmatizing Messages: The Emerging Voices of Adult Survivors of Incest

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15: Communication and Abused Women: Empowering Their Voices and Exposing the Ideological Constraints

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16: Discourse and Disenfranchisement: Targets, Victims, and Survivors of Sexual Harassment

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PART V: ISSUES RELATED TO HEALTH CONCERNS

17: Gay Men and Their Physicians: Discourse and Disenfranchisement

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18: Coping With HIV and AIDS: The Social and Personal Challenges

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19: HIVIAIDS, Women, and Threads of Discrimination: A Tapestry of Disenfranchisement

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20: Allowing Dignity: Communication With the Dying

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21: Communicating With Alcoholics: A Strategic Influence Approach to Personal Intervention

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22: Supportive Structures for Persons With Disability: Smoothing or Smothering the Way?

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23: "Persons First": Expanding Communicative Choices by Persons With Disabilities

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Tailoring Health Messages: Customizing Communication with Computer Technology
by Matthew Kreuter, David Farrell, Laura Brennan. 288 pgs.

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Chapter 1: What is Tailored Communication?

Chapter 2: Why Tailor Health Information?

Chapter 3: An Overview of The Tailoring Process

Chapter 4: Background Research: Understanding the Health Problem and Target Population

Chapter 5: Developing a Program Framework

Chapter 6: Developing a Tailoring Assessment Questionnaire: How to Measure Key Determinants

Chapter 7: Developing Design Templates

Chapter 8: Message Concepts

Chapter 9: Writing Tailored Messages: Creating the Feedback

Chapter 10: Creating Tailored Communication Programs: Liking Messages And Algorithms

Chapter 11: Creating the Tailoring Program

Chapter 12: Implementing a Tailored Heath Communication Program

Chapter 13: Evaluating Tailored Health Communication Programs

Chapter 14: Epilogue: the Future Of Tailored Health Communication

References

Index
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Health and the New Media: Technologies Transforming Personal and Public Health
by Linda M. Harris. 262 pgs.

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Lea's Communication Series Jennings Bryant/Dolf Zillmann, General Editors

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List of Contributors

Foreword

Preface

Part I: Overview

1: Differences That Make a Difference

Part II: Delivery

2: Member-Centered Managed Care and the New Media

3: Demand Management, Self-Care, and the New Media

4: Rural Health and the New Media

5: Health Care as Teamwork: The Internet Collaboratory

Part III: Health Information

6: Shared Decision Making and Multimedia

7: Public Health Information and the New Media: A View from the Public Health Service

Part IV: Health Education

8: Comprehensive School Health Education and Interactive Multimedia

9: Transforming Health Education Via New Media

10: Meditation on the New Media and Professional Education

Part V: Potholes Along the Information Superhighway

11: But Will the New Health Media Be Forthcoming?

Part VI: Glossary

The New Media: Annotated Glossary

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Communication and Health: Systems and Applications
by Eileen Berlin Ray, Lewis Donohew. 219 pgs.

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I Foundations

1 Introduction: Systems Perspectives On Health Communication

2 Health and Communication: Medical and Public Health Influences on the Research Agenda

Ii Health Communication Within Medical Contexts: Interpersonal, Small Group, And Organizational Issues

3 Patient Health Care: Issues in Interpersonal Communication

References

5 Small Group Communication In Health Care

6 Communication In Health-Care Organizations

Iii Communication and Public Health: Mass Media And Education Issues

7 Health Images In the Mass Media

8 Public Health Campaigns: Individual Message Strategies And a Model

9 Public Health Campaigns: Mass Media Strategies

10 The Chronically Uninformed: Closing the Knowledge Gap in Health

11 Communication and Health Education

Author Index

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The Talk of the Clinic: Explorations in the Analysis of Medical and Therapeutic Discourse
by G. H. Morris, Ronald J. Chenail. 335 pgs.

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Therapy and Conversations About Therapy

Ii the Discourse of Medical Care

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The Most Unhealthy Relationship of All: A Guide to Better Doctor-Patient Communication
by Mark A Hertzberg, Steve Bedney. 158 pgs.

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Explanation of Special Terms

Prologue: I Was a Nuclear Optometrist

Chapter I: Why Dr Johnny Can't Speak

Chapter II: Things That Make You Go Hmmmm

Chapter III: My Doctor Came from Mercury

Chapter IV: Why Do Bad People Happen to Good Things ?

Chapter V: Pandora's Box

Chapter VI: How to Talk to Doctors

Chapter VII: Suggestions for Doctors

Chapter VIII: Open Hailing Frequencies or Why Humor?

Conclusion: That's the Ballgame
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Risk, Communication and Health Psychology
by Dianne C. Berry. 173 pgs.

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1: An Introduction to Risk Communication in Health

2: Defining and Explaining Risk

3: Communicating Probabilistic Information

4: Understanding and Influencing People's Health Behaviours

5: Communicating Information about Health and Treatment

6: Patient Information Leaflets and the Provision of Written Information

7: Other Risk Scales and Tools for Aiding Understanding of Health-Related Information

8: Conclusions and Future Challenges

References

Index
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"But Basically You're Feeling Well, Are You?" Tag Questions in Medical Consultations, in Health Communication
by Annette Harres. 14 pgs.

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Toward the Development of Critical Health Communication Praxis, in Health Communication
by Deborah Lupton. 14 pgs.

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Health Communication and Gender: A Review and Critique, in Health Communication
by Anne S. Gabbard-Alley. 20 pgs.

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