The increasing attention placed on women′s 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 Women′s Health Messages is the first systematic examination of women′s 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 Women′s Health Messages is a vital tool for every professional interested in women′s health concerns as well as students taking courses in health communication, woman′s health, public health, sociology of health, health education, and gender studies.
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Introduction: Priorities and Agendas in Communicating about Women′s Reproductive Health – Roxanne Louiselle Parrott and Celeste Michelle Condit
PART ONE: POLITICAL AGENDAS AND WOMEN′S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH MESSAGES
Medical and Psychological Consequences of
Legal Abortion in the United States – Diane Helene Miller
A Matter of Consequence – Diane Helene Miller
Abortion Rhetoric and Media Messages
Illicit Drug Use and the Pregnant Woman – Robert Lemieux
The Prevalance, Social Impact, Effects and Legislative Action
The Drama of
in utero Drug Exposure – Kimberly N Kline
Fetus Takes First Billing
PART TWO: HISTORICAL ISSUES IN COMMUNICATING ABOUT WOMEN′S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
Contraception and Clinical Science – Susan Owen and Sally Caudill
Constructing Woman′s Place
Our Bodies, Our Risk – Martha Solomon, Mary Anne Trasciatti and Cynthia P King
Dilemmas in Contraceptive Information
The American Experience of Childbirth – Elizabeth Jean Nelson
Toward a Range of Safe Choices
Contemporary Birthing Practices – Helen M Sterk
Technology over Humanity?
PART THREE: A FETAL AND MATERNAL HEALTH APPROACH TO COMMUNICATING ABOUT WOMEN′S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
Women and Smoking – Michael Pfau, Margot L Nelson and Mary Moster
Consequences and Solutions
Tugging at Pregnant Consumers – Deirdre M Condit
Competing ′Don′t Smoke!′ ′Do Smoke!′ Media Messages and Their Messengers
Prenatal Alcohol Consumption and Outcomes for Children – Joan Marie Kraft
A Review of the Literature
Knowing When to Say When and Why – Kathryn J French, Theresa D Frasier and C Jay Frasier
Media Messages Aimed at Preventing Women′s Alcohol Consumption
PART FOUR: A CAMPAIGN PERSPECTIVE FOR COMMUNICATING ABOUT WOMEN′S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
Promoting Pregnancy and Prenatal Care to Women – Roxanne Louiselle Parrott and Margaret Daniels
Promises, Pitfalls, and Pratfalls
Prenatal Care from a Woman′s Perspective – Margaret Daniels annd Roxanne Louiselle Parrott
A Thematic Analysis of the Newspaper Media
Cervical, Ovarian, and Uterine Cancer – Melanie A Williams
Advancing Awareness, Choices, and Survival
Magic, Moralism and Marginalization – Michele Kilgore
Media Coverage of Cervical, Ovarian, and Uterine Cancer
PART FIVE: A SOCIAL SUPPORT FRAMEWORK FOR COMMUNICATING ABOUT WOMEN′S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
Menarche, Menstruation, and Menopause – Pamela J Kalbfleisch and Karen H Bonnel
The Communication of Information and Social Support
Media Portrayals of Women′s Menstrual Health Issues – Pamela J Kalbfleisch, Karen H Bennel and Tina M Harris
Social Support and Breast Cancer – Maureen P Keeley
Why Do We Talk and To Whom Do We Talk?
An Analysis of Discourse Promoting Mammography – Mary L Kahl and Joan Lawrence-Bauer
Pain, Promise, and Prevention
PART SIX: CONTEMPORARY PRIORITIES IN COMMUNICATING ABOUT WOMEN′S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
Options and Risks with Reproductive Technologies – Lisa Flores
Media Bias for Reproductive Technologies – Celeste M Condit
Hysterectomies – Cathey S Ross
Don′t Ask ′Why Not?′: Ask ′Why?′
Hysterectomy – E M I Sefcovic
What the Popular Press Said (1986-1992)
Women and AIDS – Rebecca J Welch Cline and Neyla J Mc Kenzie
The Lost Population
The Reconstruction of AIDS as a Womens′s Health Issue – Salome Raheim
CONCLUSION
A Woman-Centered ′Sense-Making′ Approach to Communicating about Women′s Reproductive Health – Roxanne Louiselle Parrott
Sobre el autor
I emphasize the processes and outcomes associated with communication about health. My recent research focuses on the design of health messages to promote behavioral adaptation in situations where individuals are unable, unwilling, and/or unlikely to avoid situations and practices that put their health at risk. I have applied a behavioral adaptation approach to farmers′ sun protection practices and am currently investigating its utility for involving the lay public in understanding the implications of human genetics research and information for personal well-being. I utilize a community-based approach in the dissemination of behavioral adaptation messages.
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