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Communication and Health

Media, Marketing and Risk

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Editors:
  1. Charlene Elliott

    1. Department of Communication, Media and Film, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

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  2. Josh Greenberg

    1. School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

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  • Offers a fresh critical communication approach to health
  • Uses a communication lens to understand how health is constructed, contested, and made meaningful
  • Brings together leading scholars in communication and health

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Communication and Health: An Introduction

    • Charlene Elliott
    Pages 1-15

  5. Co-Producing Health

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
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    2. Co-Authoring the “Person” in Person-Centred Care: A Critical Narrative Analysis of Patient Stories on Healthcare Organization Websites

      • Sara L. Martel, Matthew Strang, Nikita Singh, Salima Shariff, Seema Marwaha
      Pages 191-207

    3. The Branding of Movember and the Co-production of Men’s Health

      • Matt Ventresca
      Pages 209-230

    4. The Social Construction of ‘Good Health’

      • Tina Sikka
      Pages 231-249

  6. Managing Health: Troubling Surveillance and Communicating Risk

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 251-251
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    2. “You Don’t Own a FitBit, the FitBit Owns You”: A Taxonomy of Privacy Attitudes in the Context of Self-Quantification

      • Svetlana Smirnova
      Pages 253-270

    3. Cases and Traces, Platforms and Publics: Big Data and Health Surveillance

      • Sandra Robinson
      Pages 271-289

    4. Challenges in Vaccine Communication

      • Devon Greyson
      Pages 291-314
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About this book

This book explores the unique contribution that critical communication studies can bring to our understanding of health. It covers several broad themes: representing and mediating health; marketing and promoting health, co-producing health; and managing health crises and risks. Chapters speak to moral and social regulation through health communication, technologies of health, healthism and governmentality. They engage with historical and contemporary issues, offering readers theoretically grounded perspectives. At base, the book explores what a critical communication approach to health might look like, revealing in important—and sometimes surprising—ways how communication sits at the centre of understanding how health is constructed, contested, and made meaningful.

Reviews

“Communication and Health: Media, Marketing and Risk is a compilation of much-needed critical insights on the important intersection between communication and health. … this book will be a seminal reference not only for scholars of communication studies, but also for those working in public health, medical humanities, business and management, and other allied disciplines.” (Antony Hoyte-West, Komunikacija i kultura online, Vol. 14 (14), 2023) “This book arrives at the exact right moment. The essays, authored by leading communication scholars, confront important and timely issues at the intersections of communication and health, from mobile apps and datafication of health, to the impact of social media influencers on food choice, marketing of vitamins to children, and the threats posed by misinformation to public health. As a collection, the book does a wonderful job giving a sense of the breadth and range of scholarly activity in communication and health. Highly recommended for scholars in communication studies, health studies and health communication!” (Timothy Caulfield, Professor of Health Law and Science Policy, University of Alberta)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Communication, Media and Film, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

    Charlene Elliott

  • School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

    Josh Greenberg

About the editors

Charlene Elliott is Professor in the Department of Communication, Media and Film at the University of Calgary, jointly appointed with the Faculty of Kinesiology. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Food Marketing, Policy & Children’s Health. Her current program of research focuses on food promotion and policy (particularly food marketing to children and youth), communication and health, and sensory communication and regulation.


Josh Greenberg is Director of the School of Journalism and Communication and Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Carleton University. His expertise is in health risk communication, with a focus on media coverage of outbreaks and other infectious disease risks; public risk perceptions of vaccination; and the risk communication strategies and activities of public health officials and organizations.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Communication and Health

  • Book Subtitle: Media, Marketing and Risk

  • Editors: Charlene Elliott, Josh Greenberg

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4290-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-4289-0Published: 19 December 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-4292-0Published: 20 December 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-4290-6Published: 01 January 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 344

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Sociology, general, Media and Communication, Medical Sociology

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