1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication and Popular Culture
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.
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 explore the intersections between health communication and popular culture. It 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.
List of Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction
Christina S. Beck, Ohio University (USA)
Section I: Framing of Health-Related Issues in Popular Culture
Chapter 2: Health Information in Popular Culture
Kimberly N. Kline, University of Texas at Austin (USA)
Amy L. Yoder, Independent Scholar (USA)
Brianna Yoder, University of Texas at San Antonio (USA)
Chapter 3: Mental Illness in Popular Culture
Heather Stuart, Queen’s University (Canada)
Chapter 4: Food in Popular Culture
Alane Presswood, Pace University (USA)
Chapter 5: Body Image in Popular Culture
Rokeshia Renné Ashley, Florida International University (USA)
Chapter 6: Sexual Health in Popular Culture
Jay Baglia, DePaul University (USA)
Chapter 7: Women’s Health in Popular Culture
Sarah LeBlanc, Purdue University Fort Wayne (USA)
Chapter 8: The Intersection of LGBTQ+ Identities and Popular Culture:
Examining the Stigmas, Stories and Social Realities of Mediated Health Discourses
Raffi Sarkissian, Christopher Newport University (USA)
Michaela D. E. Meyer, Christopher Newport University (USA)
Chapter 9: Death, Dying, and Palliative Care in Popular Culture
Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Aalborg University (Denmark)
Adriana Teodorescu, Babeș-Bolyai University (Romania)
Section II: Exploring Popular Culture Influences on Health Behaviors and Beliefs
Chapter 10: Popular Culture and Risky Health Behaviors
Alan DeSantis, University of Kentucky (USA)
Chapter 11: Misinformation about Health in Popular Culture
Weirui Wang, Florida International University (USA)
Yan Huang, University of Houston (USA)
Chapter 12: Popular Culture and Medical Errors/Adverse Events
Heather J. Carmack, Mayo Clinic (USA)
Chapter 13: Popular Culture and Pro-Health Choices
Diane B. Francis, Northeastern University (USA)
Marian Jaitto-Jeffrey, University of Kentucky (USA)
Chapter 14: Sports and Health Advocacy
Jimmy Sanderson, Texas Tech University (USA)
Chapter 15: Celebrities and Public Health Narratives
Christina S. Beck, Ohio University (USA)
Chapter 16: Social Media Influencers and Public Health Narratives
Leandra H. Hernández, University of Utah (USA)
Stevie M. Munz, Utah Valley University (USA)
Section III: Considering Pro-Social Public Health Interventions in Popular Culture
Chapter 17: Entertainment-Education and Health Issues
Suruchi Sood, Johns Hopkins University (USA)
Farren Rodrigues, Johns Hopkins University (USA)
Chapter 18: Soap Operas and Health Awareness
Jennifer Walton, Radford University (USA)
Chapter 19: “Didn’t ring true for me”: Queering Breast Cancer, Graphic Medicine and Kimiko
Does Cancer: A Graphic Memoir.
Sathyaraj Venkatesan, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli (India).
Chapter 20: Popular Culture, Health Communication, and Media Literacy
Andrew Sutherland, Washington State University (USA)
Erica Weintraub Austin, Washington State University (USA)
Chapter 21: Medical Ethics, Health Communication, and Popular Culture
Evie Kendal, Swinburne University of Technology (Australia)
Section IV: Understanding Health Issues in Popular Culture from Diverse Perspectives
Chapter 22: Race, Ethnicity, Popular Culture, and Health Communication
Amanda R. Martinez, Davidson College (USA)
Chapter 23: Popular Culture and Health Communication across the Lifespan
Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, University of Arizona (USA)
Heather Gahler, University of Arizona (USA)
Jiaqi Zeng, University of Arizona (USA)
Section V: Pop Culture and Health Communication: Looks to the Future
Chapter 24: Looking to the Future of Popular Culture and Public Health Interventions
Suraj Arshanapally, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA)
Chapter 25: Looking to the Future of Popular Culture and Health Communication
Theorizing and Advocacy
Elisia L. Cohen, University of Minnesota (USA)
Index
Biography
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.
