This popular and engaging text on health communication is now revised and updated in a second edition that incorporates recent research and boasts new material on topics such as crisis communication, social disparities in health, and systemic reform. <ul>
<li>Fully revised second edition of this popular and authoritative text</li> <li>Includes fresh material on topics such as crisis communication, health care reform, global health issues, and political issues in health communication</li> <li>New case studies, examples, and updated glossary keep the work relevant and student-friendly</li> <li>Provides effective strategies for healthcare organizations and individuals in communicating with patients</li> <li>Updated and enhanced online resources, including PowerPoint slides, test bank, and instructors manual, available upon publication at www.wiley.com/go/wright</li> </ul>

Health Communication in the 21st Century

Politics & Social Sciences

Sparks, Lisa

O'Hair, H. Dan

Wright, Kevin B.

Social Sciences

Wiley/Blackwell

Patient Provider Interaction

This book offers a much-needed introduction to the dynamics of the communication exchange between providers and patients in the health-care environment. Starting from the principle that health-care-providers and patients try to speak the same language to reach the best decisions for patient care, but often misunderstand each other whilst navigating the process of diagnosis, treatment and care, Lisa Sparks and Melinda Villagran clearly explain how health communication theory and research can help us better understand these complex interactions, and provide strategies for improving patient and provider communication. 
Sparks and Villagran cover a broad range of key issues and theories related to provider-patient interaction, including patient information and affective needs, barriers to effective communication in health-care contexts, and communication skills training for providers. Drawing on the most current literature in this vibrant field, they show the transformations that new technologies such as e-mail and text messaging have brought to communication with and between patients and providers, consider the roles of caregivers, both formal and informal, and illustrate how health-care organizations impact on interpersonal interactions. Throughout the book, Sparks and Villagran deftly illustrate how communicative understandings of patient-provider interaction can have positive practical outcomes, feeding into health behaviour change, creating a communication environment which can improve health literacy and ultimately lead to better health outcomes. With groundbreaking insights, on-point explanations, and deeply moving examples, Patient and Provider Interaction illuminates and enriches what is most often one of the most important interactions of our lives.

Medical Books

Villagran, Melinda

Medicine

Polity

The new fourth edition of the mother of all kids’ joke books is no joke. Smaller in size, but still packed with every joke! Jokelopedia is an all-encompassing, gut-busting collection of more than 1,700 kid-friendly jokes, tongue twisters, riddles, and puns. The perfect gift for incurable jokesters, class clowns, comedians-to-be, and aspiring ventriloquists—not to mention the quieter kids who still love a good laugh—it features doctor jokes, robber jokes, teacher jokes, why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road jokes, lightbulb jokes, movie star jokes, gross-out jokes, vampire jokes, and elephant jokes. Plus, it has the classics, fresh variations on the classics, and jokes with nothing classic about them. And all jokes are organized into categories for easy reference. In addition there are joke-telling pointers and tips, funny facts and pop culture references, and two dozen spotlights on favorite TV shows, books, comics, and comic actors, including iCarly, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Steve Carell, and Tina Fey.

Jokelopedia, Third Edition: The Biggest, Best, Silliest, Dumbest Joke Book Ever!

Children's Books

Blank, Eva

Benjamin, Alison

Green, Rosanne

Weitzman, Ilana

Arts, Music & Photography

Workman Publishing Company

It’s the mother of all kids’ joke books—an all-encompassing, gut-busting, and bestselling collection of more than 1,700 jokes, tongue-twisters, riddles, and puns for all occasions. Here are 61 elephant jokes, including: What did the elephant say when he walked into the post office? / Ouch! Dozens of knock-knock jokes, like: Knock-knock. / Who’s there? / Doris. / Doris who? / Doris locked. That’s why I knocked! Plus teacher jokes and creature jokes, doctor jokes and robber jokes, food jokes, gross jokes, why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road jokes, and name-game jokes: What do you call a man in a tiger’s cage? / Claude. And for all aspiring comedians, there are joke-telling pointers and tips, funny facts, and spotlights on comic TV shows, books, and actors, from Steve Carell to Tina Fey to SpongeBob Squarepants. It’s the ultimate gift for the incurable jokester.

Jokelopedia: The Biggest, Best, Silliest, Dumbest Joke Book Ever!

Workman Kids

Administration & Medicine Economics

An extensive overview offering insight into both the current thinking and some lesser researched topics in the field of health communications.A new textbook exploring the rapidly growing area of health communication theory and practice, integrating health communication research with communication theoryBrings together an author team who have a wealth of experience across a diverse range of health communication issues, creating an unrivalled breadth of coverageProvides strategies for hospitals, HMOs and other health care institutions to effectively communicate with patientsCovers a broad range of topics, from the role of new technologies in health communication and spirituality and health, to community health programs and issues among the growing population of older adultsIncludes student-friendly features, such as chapter summaries, discussion questions, and a glossary

An extensive overview offering insight into both the current thinking and some lesser researched topics in the field of health communications. 
<ul>
<li>A new textbook exploring the rapidly growing area of health communication theory and practice, integrating health communication research with communication theory</li> <li>Brings together an author team who have a wealth of experience across a diverse range of health communication issues, creating an unrivalled breadth of coverage</li> <li>Provides strategies for hospitals, HMOs and other health care institutions to effectively communicate with patients</li> <li>Covers a broad range of topics, from the role of new technologies in health communication and spirituality and health, to community health programs and issues among the growing population of older adults</li> <li>Includes student-friendly features, such as chapter summaries, discussion questions, and a glossary</li> </ul>

Conversing with Cancer: How to Ask Questions, Find and Share Information, and Make the Best Decisions (Language as Social Action)

With more than 40% of people eventually facing a cancer diagnosis, Conversing with Cancer is a much-needed addition to understanding and improving cancer care through strong communication among providers, patients, and caregivers. Each person whose life is affected by a cancer diagnosis―patient, healthcare provider, caregiver―has information and needs information in order to make the best decisions possible under the circumstances. After studying and writing about the topics of communication and cancer for many years separately, authors Lisa Sparks and Anna Leahy combine their expertise in this new tour de force. Here, they apply principles from the field of health communication to the cancer care experience, drawing from a wide range of scholarship to offer a comprehensive view of cancer care communication and extend existing work into new insights. Engaging chapters cover all phases of the journey through cancer, from prevention to recovery or end-of-life; analyze the roles of the variety of cultural and social identities and relationships; and explore written, verbal, non-verbal, and electronic communication. In addition, this book draws from the real-life stories of cancer patients themselves to enrich the book’s unique discussions and to better understand how theory can be put into practice. Conversing with Cancer is ideal for use in health communication classes, medical and nursing programs, and formal caregiver training. In addition, it is useful for cancer patient and caregiver supports groups and for individual providers, patients, and caregivers.

Conversing with Cancer (Language as Social Action)

Peter Lang

With more than 40% of people eventually facing a cancer diagnosis, Conversing with Cancer is a much-needed addition to understanding and improving cancer care through strong communication among providers, patients, and caregivers. Each person whose life is affected by a cancer diagnosis--patient, healthcare provider, caregiver--has information and needs information in order to make the best decisions possible under the circumstances. After studying and writing about the topics of communication and cancer for many years separately, authors Lisa Sparks and Anna Leahy combine their expertise in this new tour de force. Here, they apply principles from the field of health communication to the cancer care experience, drawing from a wide range of scholarship to offer a comprehensive view of cancer care communication and extend existing work into new insights. Engaging chapters cover all phases of the journey through cancer, from prevention to recovery or end-of-life; analyze the roles of the variety of cultural and social identities and relationships; and explore written, verbal, non-verbal, and electronic communication. In addition, this book draws from the real-life stories of cancer patients themselves to enrich the book's unique discussions and to better understand how theory can be put into practice. Conversing with Cancer is ideal for use in health communication classes, medical and nursing programs, and formal caregiver training. In addition, it is useful for cancer patient and caregiver supports groups and for individual providers, patients, and caregivers.

Leahy, Anna

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

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Health Communication in the 21st Century

Patient Provider Interaction

Patient Provider Interaction

Jokelopedia, Third Edition: The Biggest, Best, Silliest, Dumbest Joke Book Ever!

Jokelopedia: The Biggest, Best, Silliest, Dumbest Joke Book Ever!

Health Communication in the 21st Century

Health Communication in the 21st Century

Health Communication in the 21st Century

Conversing with Cancer (Language as Social Action)

Conversing with Cancer: How to Ask Questions, Find and Share Information, and Make the Best Decisions (Language as Social Action)