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Evaluating Women's Health Messages
A Resource Book
Edited by:
- Roxanne Louiselle Parrott - Pennsylvania State University, USA
- Celeste Michelle Condit - University of Georgia, USA
Other Titles in:
Health Communication
Health Communication
February 2013 | 459 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
The increased attention currently being paid to women's reproductive health issues has produced a corresponding interest in the role that communication plays in promoting better health care. Groundbreaking and comprehensive, this book is the first systematic examination of the major types and forms of messages about women's reproductive health - medical, social scientific and public - and the degree to which these messages compare with and contradict each other. Within the broad framework of communication, a range of women's health issues are examined in this book from political, historical, technological and feminist perspectives. The issues examined include: abortion; infertility; drug and alcohol use in pregnancy; childbirth; AIDS; menstruation and menopause.
Roxanne Louiselle Parrott and Celeste Michelle Condit
Introduction: Priorities and Agendas in Communicating about Women's Reproductive Health
PART ONE: POLITICAL AGENDAS AND WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH MESSAGES
Diane Helene Miller
Medical and Psychological Consequences of Legal Abortion in the United States
Diane Helene Miller
A Matter of Consequence
Robert Lemieux
Illicit Drug Use and the Pregnant Woman
Kimberly N Kline
The Drama of in utero Drug Exposure
PART TWO: HISTORICAL ISSUES IN COMMUNICATING ABOUT WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
Susan Owen and Sally Caudill
Contraception and Clinical Science
Martha Solomon, Mary Anne Trasciatti and Cynthia P King
Our Bodies, Our Risk
Elizabeth Jean Nelson
The American Experience of Childbirth
Helen M Sterk
Contemporary Birthing Practices
PART THREE: A FETAL AND MATERNAL HEALTH APPROACH TO COMMUNICATING ABOUT WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
Michael Pfau, Margot L Nelson and Mary Moster
Women and Smoking
Deirdre M Condit
Tugging at Pregnant Consumers
Joan Marie Kraft
Prenatal Alcohol Consumption and Outcomes for Children
Kathryn J French, Theresa D Frasier and C Jay Frasier
Knowing When to Say When and Why
PART FOUR: A CAMPAIGN PERSPECTIVE FOR COMMUNICATING ABOUT WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
Roxanne Louiselle Parrott and Margaret Daniels
Promoting Pregnancy and Prenatal Care to Women
Margaret Daniels annd Roxanne Louiselle Parrott
Prenatal Care from a Woman's Perspective
Melanie A Williams
Cervical, Ovarian, and Uterine Cancer
Michele Kilgore
Magic, Moralism and Marginalization
PART FIVE: A SOCIAL SUPPORT FRAMEWORK FOR COMMUNICATING ABOUT WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
Pamela J Kalbfleisch and Karen H Bonnel
Menarche, Menstruation, and Menopause
Pamela J Kalbfleisch, Karen H Bennel and Tina M Harris
Media Portrayals of Women's Menstrual Health Issues
Maureen P Keeley
Social Support and Breast Cancer
Mary L Kahl and Joan Lawrence-Bauer
An Analysis of Discourse Promoting Mammography
PART SIX: CONTEMPORARY PRIORITIES IN COMMUNICATING ABOUT WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
Lisa Flores
Options and Risks with Reproductive Technologies
Celeste M Condit
Media Bias for Reproductive Technologies
Cathey S Ross
Hysterectomies
E M I Sefcovic
Hysterectomy
Rebecca J Welch Cline and Neyla J McKenzie
Women and AIDS
Salome Raheim
The Reconstruction of AIDS as a Womens's Health Issue
CONCLUSION
Roxanne Louiselle Parrott
A Woman-Centered 'Sense-Making' Approach to Communicating about Women's Reproductive Health
