Communication and Disenfranchisement: Social Health Issues and Implications (Routledge Communication Series)

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Synopsis
This volume and its companion case studies book deal with some of the people, groups, and classes who are living a disenfranchised existence in the United States. Whether through birth, life events, or unfortunate circumstances, they are denied full privileges, rights, and power within the existing societal structure. Centered around societal health problems as they relate to socioeconomic status, family, abuse, and health concerns, these volumes examine salient issues from several theoretical frameworks, including feminist theory and the social construction of reality. Communication and Disenfranchisement provides theory-based essays on topics such as the homeless, adult survivors of sexual assault, battered women, persons with disabilities, impoverished women, the indigent living in the inner city, persons with HIV/AIDS, the terminally ill, and the elderly. Case Studies in Communication and Disenfranchisement provides parallel case studies, applying the issues and concepts discussed in the essays. Used together, these books provide theoretically-based applications of social health issues within a communication framework. Traditionally, health communication research has emphasized the communication-physical health relationship. Inadvertently, this primary focus has restricted what information has been included under the domain of health communication. These books expand that domain by examining how the communication-disenfranchisement relationship is accomplished, managed, and overcome, and by recognizing the significance of the pragmatic and theoretic implications of this inquiry.
Copyright:
1996

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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781136689789
Related ISBNs:
9780203812020, 9780805815306, 9780805815306, 9780805815313, 9780805815313
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.; Routledge;
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Social Studies, Language Arts, Communication
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Eileen Berlin Ray

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