Routledge Research in Health Communication
Covid-19 Misinformation Flows: Challenges and Options for Reconstructing and Disseminating Mediated Messages
1st Edition
Edited
By Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi
September 30, 2025
Covid-19 Misinformation Flows describes challenges in accessing, collecting, processing, and disseminating information on pandemics, with a focus on Covid-19 communication. An international team of authors address the role of disinformation and misinformation in managing the communication of ...
Healthcare and Patient Communication in the Digital Era: A Patienthood and Patient Perspective
1st Edition
By Sinikka Torkkola, Anna Sendra Toset
September 18, 2025
This book provides a social and cultural theoretical framework for the digitalization of healthcare communication from a patient-centered perspective. Through empirical case studies, the book outlines the experiences of patients as the digitalization of healthcare communication re-spatializes and ...
Humor and Health in the Media: Raising the Question, Should Illness be Funny?
1st Edition
By Malynnda A. Johnson
August 05, 2024
Examining popular media portrayals of various health topics, this book offers a critical analysis of how those mediated messages can impact, for good or ill, people’s physical and mental health. Looking specifically at how various depictions of health topics have both aided in the normalization of ...
Global Health Communication for Immigrants and Refugees: Cases, Theories, and Strategies
1st Edition
Edited
By Do Kyun David Kim, Gary L. Kreps
January 29, 2024
This book analyzes important international cases of immigrant and refugee health from diverse communication perspectives, providing theoretical frames and effective recommendations for designing future health communication campaigns and interventions for global health promotion. ...
Post-AIDS Discourse in Health Communication: Sociocultural Interpretations
1st Edition
Edited
By Ambar Basu, Andrew R. Spieldenner, Patrick J. Dillon
January 29, 2024
This book examines the discourse of a "post-AIDS" culture, and the medical-discursive shift from crisis and death to survival and living. Contributions from a diverse group of international scholars interrogate and engage with the cultural, social, political, scientific, historical, global, and ...