Communicating Health and Illness

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Communicating Health and Illness is written by Richard Gwyn and published by SAGE. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0761964754 (ISBN 10) and 9780761964759 (ISBN 13).

In this book Richard Gwyn demonstrates the centrality of discourse analysis to an understanding of health and communication. Focusing on language and communication issues he demonstrates that it is possible to observe and analyze patterns in the ways in which health and illness are represented and articulated by both health professionals and lay people. Communicating Health and Illness: · Explores culturally validated notions of health and sickness and the medicalization of illness · Surveys media representations of health and illness · Considers the metaphoric nature of talk about illness · Contributes to the ongoing debate in relation to narrative based medicine