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Book
Communicating Women's Health: Social and Cultural Norms that Influence Health Decisions
(2015)
Abstract
This volume explores the conditions under which women are empowered, and feel entitled, to make the health decisions that are best for them. At its core, it illuminates how the most basic element of communication, voice, has been summarily suppressed for entire groups of women when it comes to control of their own sexuality, reproductive lives, and health. By giving voice to these women’s experiences, the book shines a light on ways to improve health communication for women.
Bringing together personal narratives, key theory and literature, and original qualitative and quantitative studies, the book provides an in-depth comparative picture of how and why women’s health varies for distinct groups of women. Organized into four parts―historical influences on patient and provider perceptions, breast cancer the silence and the shame, make it taboo: mothering, reproduction, and womanhood, and sex, sexuality, relational health, and womanhood―each section is introduced with a brief synthesis and discussion of the key questions addressed across the chapters.
Keywords
- Health communication,
- Women,
- Empower,
- Health decisions
Disciplines
Publication Date
December, 2015
Publisher
Routledge Research in Health Communication
ISBN
9781138841611
Citation Information
Annette Madlock-Gatison. Communicating Women's Health: Social and Cultural Norms that Influence Health Decisions. (2015) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/annette-madlock-gatison/2/