Evaluating Women's Health Messages

The increasing attention placed on womens reproductive health issues in recent years has produced a corresponding interest in the role that communication plays--from promoting better health care to fostering greater well-being. Evaluating Womens Health Messages is the first systematic examination of womens health communication. Compiling the works of over 30 contributors editors Roxanne Louisselle Parrott and Celeste Condit explore the various forms health messages take--medical social scientific and public--and the ways in which they compare with and contradict each other. The book is at once groundbreaking and comprehensive examining the range of health issues from political historical technological social support and feminist perspectives--all within the broad framework of communication. With two chapters on each topic the book provides a variety of perspectives on such issues as abortion infertility drug and alcohol use in pregnancy childbirth prenatal care AIDS breast cancer reproductive technologies menstruation menopause and hysterectomy. Evaluating Womens Health Messages is a vital tool for every professional interested in womens health concerns as well as students taking courses in health communication womans health public health sociology of health health education and gender studies.