Communicating Health: A Culture-Centered Approach - Hardcover

Dutta, Mohan J.

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ISBN 10: 0745634915 ISBN 13: 9780745634913

Verlag: Polity Press, 2008

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Communicating Health provides an overview of current research in health communication. In particular, the book highlights the role that culture plays in the communication of health and shows how students and scholars alike can study the relationship between health and culture.

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M. Dutta, Associate Professor of Communication, Department of Communication, Purdue University

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The culture-centred approach offered in this book argues that communication theorizing ought to locate culture at the centre of the communication process such that the theories are contextually embedded and co-constructed through dialogue with the cultural participants. The discussions in the book situate health communication within local contexts by looking at identities, meanings and experiences of health among community members, and locating them in the realm of the structures that constitute health. The culturecentred approach foregrounds the voices of cultural members in the co-constructions of health risks and in the articulation of health problems facing communities. Ultimately, the book provides theoretical and practical suggestions for developing a culture-centred understanding of health communication processes.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Polity Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0745634915
• ISBN 13: 9780745634913
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 322
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