This volume provides the theoretical, methodological, and praxis-driven issues in research
on interpretive, critical, and cultural approaches to health communication. It includes an …

The chapters in this book and the literature that they reference illustrate that the emergence
of interpretive, critical, and cultural perspectives in health communication has broadened the …

Health communication researchers have made great strides in developing theoretically
grounded research, resulting in more complex understandings of communication in health …

One of the earliest critical essays to appear in the pages of Health Communication was an
article written by the scholar Deborah Lupton in 1994, titled “Toward the Development of a …

Health communication scholars have increasingly called for the development and synthesis
of theoretical insights in understanding, interpreting, explaining, predicting, analyzing, and …

Health and illness are storied experiences that necessarily entail personal, cultural, and
political complexities. For all of us, communicating about health and illness requires a …

We examine the field of health communication with a multimethodological analysis,
presenting a brief historical synopsis of the academic literature as well as the results of a …

The following essay is divided into two sections. First, is a discussion of the research that
should no longer be done in the future. Social science advances, if at all, by excluding …

There is a classic poem that illustrates what happens when something large is reduced to
smaller parts in order to describe it. In the poem, six blind men feel diff erent parts of an …

Abstract The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication brings together the current
body of scholarly work in health communication. With its expansive scope, it offers an …