Christina M Beck

Communicating for Better Health: A Guide Through the Medical Mazes

The Lynching of Language: Gender, Politics, and Power in the Hill-Thomas Hearings

The Lynching of Language: Gender, Politics, and Power in the Hill-Thomas Hearings

Partnership for Health: Building Relationships Between Women and Health Care Givers

Partnership for Health: Building Relationships Between Women and Health Care Givers

Narratives, Health, and Healing: Communication Theory, Research, and Practice

Narratives, Health, and Healing: Communication Theory, Research, and Practice

Communication Yearbooks Vols 6-33 Set: Communication Yearbook 30 (Volume 30)

Communication Yearbook 30 continues the tradition of publishing rich, state-of-the-discipline literature reviews. This volume offers insightful descriptions of research as well as reflections on the implications of those findings for other areas of the discipline. Editor Christina S. Beck presents a...

Communicating for Better Health: A Guide through the Medical Mazes

Communicating for Better Health provides a comprehensive, theoretically sound, and highly readable discussion of health communication in an ever-changing health care industry. With the advent of technology, consumerism, and managed care, relationships between health care participants have become inc...

Celebrity Health Narratives and the Public Health

We follow celebrities on Twitter and Facebook, watch them on television, and read about them in supermarket checkout lines. Our relationship with celebrities has never been so immediate. Their personal trials are news headlines and water cooler talk. Offering the first extensive look at celebrity he...

The Lynching of Language: Gender, Politics, and Power in the Hill-Thomas Hearings

Shards of an Angel

While running errands with her eight-year-old son, Garrett, Deputy Sheriff Krysta Jamison lets him out of her sight for no more than a moment. In that moment, her little boy is kidnapped. She gives chase, but quickly loses them in traffic. Krysta initiates a desperate, relentless search-only to find...

Communication Yearbooks Vols 6-33 Set: Communication Yearbook 32 (Volume 32)

The Communication Yearbook annuals publish diverse, state-of-the-art literature reviews across the field of communication. Sponsored by the International Communication Association, volumes offer insightful descriptions of research as well as reflections on the implications of those findings for othe...

Lea Health Communication Course Pak: Narratives, Health, and Healing: Communication Theory, Research, and Practice (Lea's Communication Series)

This distinctive collection explores the use of narratives in the social construction of wellness and illness. Narratives, Health, and Healing emphasizes what the process of narrating accomplishes--how it serves in the health communication process where people define themselves and present their soc...