Beyond These Walls Readings in Health Communication

Beyond These Walls is an invaluable collection of foundational and cutting-edge readings from top scholars in the rapidly growing area of health communication. This innovative anthology demonstrates that health care and communication about health often take place at home, at work, at school, and in recreational and social settings--not just in doctors' offices and hospitals. Editor Linda C. Lederman has compiled essays that--through a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches--investigate the following diverse topics: * The historical background of health communication * The development of patient-provider communication as a key object of study * The prevalence of health promotion and other persuasive messages in public and individual health * The importance of social support offered inside and outside of traditional medical experiences * The growing importance of media literacy, particularly in a rapidly expanding information age * The increasingly relevant relationship between health communication and the organizations that help construct it * The future of health communication Other subjects covered include the effects of socio-political and organizational structures on health communication, the impact of the Internet, and narrative as a significant conceptual approach to understanding health and illness. Individual chapter introductions draw students' attention to key points in each reading, and discussion questions--designed to encourage critical thinking--follow each article. A unique topical matrix, which identifies relevant subject categories in each chapter, places the research within the larger context of health communication.

Foreword by Gary Kreps; Preface: To the Instructor; Acknowledgements; Linda Costigan Lederman: Introductory Overview: Thinking Outside the Boundaries that Divide; About the Contributors; Health Communication Grid; Part I: Health Communication: History and Contemporary Challenges; Gary L. Kreps, Jim L. Query, Jr., and Ellen W. Bonaguro: 1. The Interdisciplinary Study of Health Communication and Its Relationship to Communication Science; Katherine Miller and Daniel J. Ryan: 2. Communication in the Age of Managed Care: Introduction to the Special Issue; Russell C. Coile, Jr.: 3. E-Health: Reinventing Healthcare in the Information Age; Barbara F. Sharf and Marsha L. Vanderford: 4. Illness Narratives and the Social Construction of Health; Part II: Patient Provider Communication; Annette Harres: 5. 'But Basically You're Feeling Well, Are You?': Tag Questions in Medical Consultations; Krista Hirschmann: 6. Blood, Vomit, and Communication: The Days and Nights of an Intern on Call; Donald J. Cegala and Deborah Socha McGee with Kelly S. McNeilis: 7. Components of Patients' and Doctors' Perceptions of Communication Competence During a Primary Care Medical Interview; Alex Broom: 8. Virtually Healthy: The Impact of Internet Use on Disease Experience and the Doctor-Patient Relationship; Patricia Flynn Weitzman and Eban A. Weitzman: 9. Promoting Communication With Older Adults: Protocols for Resolving Interpersonal Conflict and for Enhancing Interactions With Doctors; Laura L. Ellingson and Patrice M. Buzzanell: 10. Listening to Women's Narratives of Breast Cancer Treatment: A Feminist Approach to Patient Satisfaction with Physician-Patient Communication; Part III: The Changing Role of Patients in Health Care; Rajiv N. Rimal, Scott C. Ratzan, Paul Arntson, and Vicki S. Freimuth: 11. Reconceptualizing the 'Patient': Health Care Promotion as Increasing Citizens' Decision-Making Competencies; Michael Hardey: 12. 'E-Health': The Internet and the Transformation of Patients Into Consumers and Producers of Health Knowledge; Merle H. Mishel: 13. Uncertainty in Illness; Part IV: Health Communication in Organizations, Groups, and Teams; Laura L. Ellingson: 14. Interdisciplinary Health Care: Teamwork in the Clinic Backstage; Julie S. Abramson and Terry Mizrahi: 15. When Social Workers and Physicians Collaborate: Positive and Negative Interdisciplinary Experiences; Part V: Beyond Health Care Providers: Social Support; Rebecca W. Tardy and Claudia L. Hale: 16. Bonding and Cracking: The Role of the Informal, Interpersonal Networks in Health Care Decision Making; Christine S. Davis and Kathleen A. Salkin: 17. Sisters and Friends: Dialogue and Multivocality in a Relational Model of Sibling Disability; Stephen M. Haas: 18. Social Support as Relationship Maintenance in Gay Male Couples Coping With HIV or AIDS; Part VI: Health Promotion; Kim Witte: 19. Putting the Fear Back Into Fear Appeals: The Extended Parallel Process Model; Linda C. Lederman, Lea P. Stewart, Fern Walter Goodhart, and Lisa Laitman: 20. A Case Against 'Binge' as the Term of Choice: Convincing College Students to Personalize Messages About Dangerous Drinking; Michael Pfau, Steve Von Bockern and Jong Geun Kang: 21. Use of Inoculation to Promote Resistance in Smoking Initiation Among Adolescents; Michelle Miller-Day and Jacqueline M. Barnett: 22. 'I'm Not a Druggie': Adolescents' Ethnicity and (Erroneous) Beliefs About Drug Use Norms; Nurit Guttman: 23. Ethical Dilemmas in Health Campaigns; Part VII: Media Literacy and Health Issues; Kristen Harrison: 24. Television Viewers' Ideal Body Proportions: The Case of the Curvaceously Thin Woman; Linda C. Lederman, Joshua B. Lederman, and Robert D. Kully: 25. Believing Is Seeing: The Co-Construction of Everyday Myths in the Media About College Drinking; Mollyann Brodie, Nina Kjellson, Tina Hoff, and Molly Parker: 26. Perceptions of Latinos, African Americans, and Whites on Media as a Health Information Source; Linda C. Lederman, Marianne LeGreeo, Tara J. Schuwerk, and Emily T. Cripe: A Final Word: Framing the Future of Health Communication

Linda C. Lederman is Director of the Institute for Social Science Research at Arizona State University and Professor of Communication in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication. She is author and coauthor of more than a dozen books, including Communication Theory: A Casebook Approach (2005), Changing the Culture of College Drinking: A Socially Situated Health (2005), and Voices of Recovery, a collection of stories by people who began their recovery from alcoholism while undergraduates at Rutgers.