Acknowledgment ix1 Rethinking Culture in Health Communication 12 Cultural Consciousness I: Magic Consciousness and Emotions in Health 263 Cultural Consciousness II: Mythic Connection and the Social Meanings of Health and Illness 514 Cultural Consciousness III: Perspectival Thinking and the Emergence of Modern Medicine 805 Cultural Consciousness IV: Integral Fusion and Health Professionals in Healthcare Settings 1076 Culture and Health Behaviors: Culture Assumptions in Health Theories and Practices 1387 Health Literacy: Cultural Approaches to Health Behaviors and Decision-Making 1638 Group-Based Identities: Cultural Approaches to Social Stigma and Health Practices 1929 Uncertainty in Health and Illness: From Perspectival Thinking to Integral Fusion 22610 Social Support: Understanding Supportive Relationships Through Cultural Perspectives 25711 Transformative Technologies: Cultural Approaches to Technologies in Health Contexts 29312 Health Disparities: Observations and Solutions Through Different Cultural Approaches 32813 When Cultural Perspectives Collide: Community-Based Health Interventions in Marginalized Populations 36814 Distributive Justice: Embedding Equity and Justice in Structural Barriers and Health Policies 404Index 445
Elaine Hsieh, Ph.D., J.D. is Professor at the Department of Communication, University of Oklahoma, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. An award-winning author, Fulbright Scholar, and NIH-funded researcher, she has published extensively to examine the intersections of culture, language, health, and medicine in interpersonal and cross-cultural contexts. She is currently Associate Editor for Health Communication. She has served as the Chair of the Health Communication Division at the National Communication Association and as Associate Editor for the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health (2010-2017).Eric Mark Kramer, Ph.D. is Presidential Professor of Communication and Affiliate Faculty in the College of International and Area Studies and the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is Senior Editor of The Oxford University Research Encyclopedia on Communication, International and Global Communication, Associate Editor of the Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, a founding Director of the EU Institute for Studies in Comparative Civilizations, author and editor of 11 books.