Chapter 1: Communicating Cancer: Media Agenda Building for Health Promotion in Singapore
Chapter 2: Designing a Disclosure-Focused Stigma Intervention for Mental Health Research
Chapter 3: It Happens to Those People: Phenomenological Study of HIV in the Media
Chapter 4: Strategies: A Case Study of the Skin Cancer Specialty Clinic
Unit Two: Medical Tourism and Culture in Medicine
Chapter 5: Tourism: The Role of Communication Regarding Risks and Benefits of Obtaining Medical Services Abroad
Chapter 6: Traditional Chinese Medicine as Emerging Domain for Health Communication Study
Chapter 7: Cultural Considerations in Health Care Practices
Unit Three: Health in Later Life
Chapter 8: Health Communication in the Context of Aging: The Development of an Intergenerational Communication Intervention to Reduce Biases and Discrimination
Chapter 9: Spousal Caregiver Narratives and Credible Authority: Uncertainty in Illness of Spousal Caregivers
Chapter 10: Ensuring a Good Death: Where Communication Can Intervene
Unit Four: Research in Health
Chapter 11: Family Communication Patterns, Illness Attitudes, and the Willingness to Disclose Symptoms to Parents
Chapter 12: The Ventria Venture: Communicating Health Risks and Rewards of Genetically Modified Crops
Chapter 13: Using the Right Cues: Directions and Implications for Communication of Health Related Information Through Social Media
Chapter 14: Toward a Framework for the Study of Communication and Ocular Health and Disease: Lessons From a Personal Narrative of Vision Loss
Chapter 15: The Moderating Role of Empathy in Patient Outcomes: A Proposed Model to Reframe the Debate between Biomedical and Patient-Centered Approaches
Unit Five: Alternative Perspectives in Health
Chapter 16: Forms and Facets of Effective Support Provision from Friends and Family: Recipient Perspectives among People Coping with Eating Disorders
Chapter 17: Communication and Healthy Sexual Practices: Toward a Holistic Communicology of Sexuality
Chapter 18: Mexican-American Women and Health
Chapter 19: Running Dialogue: The Social and Communicative Experience of Running Together
Chapter 20: When Family Bullying Mandates Medical Error: Redefining Elder Abuse
Chapter 21: Communicating Sex-Positive Sexuality Education: Benefits and Strategies of an Emerging Approach