The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication and Popular Culture offers rich insights into the ways in which communication about health through popular culture become a part of healing, wellness, and health-related decisions.
The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication and Popular Culture offers rich insights into the ways in which communication about health through popular culture can become a part of healing, wellness, and health-related decisions.
This Handbook allows readers to understand and consider messages that inform and influence health-related choices through pop culture in the public sphere. Written in an accessible narrative style and including interdisciplinary, global, and diverse perspectives, a vast team of contributing authors from the field explores the intersections between health communication and popular culture. The Handbook is divided into five parts: Framing of Health-Related Issues in Popular Culture; Exploring Popular Culture Influences on Health Behaviors and Beliefs; Considering Pro-Social Public Health Interventions in Popular Culture; Understanding Health Issues in Popular Culture from Diverse Perspectives; and Pop Culture and Health Communication: Looks to the Future.
The Handbook will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of Communication Studies, Health Communication, Public Health Policy, Media Literacy, and Cultural Studies.
1. Consequentiality of Popular Culture for Contemporary Health
Communication Part I: Framing of Health-Related Issues in Popular Culture
2.
Popular Culture and Health Information
3. Mental Illness and Popular Culture
4. Food in Popular Culture
5. Popular Culture and the Oppositional Gazes of
Black Womens Bodies: Mister v. Celie
6. Sexual Health and Popular Culture
7.
They Dont Look Sick: Popular Culture and Womens Health
8. The Intersection
of LGBTQ+ Identities and Popular Culture: Examining the Stigmas, Stories, and
Social Realities of Mediated Health Discourses
9. Death Loves to Be
Represented: Death, Dying, and Palliative Care in Popular Culture Part II:
Exploring Popular Culture Influences on Health Behaviors and Beliefs
10.
Hollywoods Intoxicating Effects: A Qualitative Analysis of Alcohol Use in 50
Popular College Fraternity Films
11. Misinformation about Health in Popular
Culture: The Prevalence, Influence, and Mitigation of Health Misinformation
12. Popular Culture and Medical Errors
13. Popular Culture and Pro-Health
Choices
14. Sports and Health Advocacy
15. Celebrity Health Narratives and
Implications for Public Conversations about Health
16. Social Media
Influencers and Public Health Narratives Part III: Considering Pro-Social
Public Health Interventions in Popular Culture
17. Entertainment-Education
and Health Issues
18. Soap Operas Raising Awareness of Physical and Mental
Wellness
19. Didnt ring true for me: Queering Breast Cancer, Graphic
Medicine, and Kimiko Does Cancer: A Graphic Memoir
20. What Did I Just Watch?
Media Literacys Relationship with Health Communication and Pop Culture
21.
Medical Ethics, Health Communication, and Popular Culture Part IV:
Understanding Health Issues in Popular Culture from Diverse Perspectives
22.
Race, Ethnicity, Popular Culture, and Health Communication
23. Popular
Culture and Health Communication across the Lifespan Part V: Pop Culture and
Health Communication: Looks to the Future
24. Looking to the Future of
Popular Culture and the Future of Public Health Interventions
25. Looking to
the Future of Popular Culture and Health Communication Theorizing and Advocacy
Christina S. Beck is a Professor in the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University (USA) and Past-President of the National Communication Association and Central States Communication Association.
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