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Communicating About Health: Current Issues and Perspectives - Softcover

Du Pré, Athena; Cook Overton, Barbara

 
9780197664308: Communicating About Health: Current Issues and Perspectives
Softcover
ISBN 10: 019766430X ISBN 13: 9780197664308
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2023

Synopsis

Communicating About Health: Current Issues and Perspectives continues to live up to its long-standing reputation as the most dynamic and current exploration of health communication on the market. The book offers rich, current research and in-depth analysis of the cultural, social, and organizational issues that influence health communication and health advocacy

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About the Author

Athena du Pré, Ph.D., is a Professor of Communication and Director of the Strategic Communication & Leadership master's degree program and the Health Communication Leadership graduate-level certificate program at the University of West Florida. Her research interests include patient-caregiver communication, coping with health crises, humor and healing, and workplace dynamics. Dr. du Pré is a former journalist and hospital public relations director. She received a Ph.D. in communication from the University of Oklahoma in 1995. Since joining the UWF faculty, she has twice been honored with Distinguished Teaching Awards by the student body. She is also coauthor, with Ron Adler and George Rodman, of Oxford's Understanding Human Communication and Essential Communication.

Barbara Cook Overton earned a Ph.D. in Health Communication from Louisiana State University and is the author of Unintended Consequences of Electronic Medical Records: An Emergency Room Ethnography (2019).

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
2023
Language
English
ISBN 10 
019766430X
ISBN 13 
9780197664308
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
432