Diversity plays an important role in how people experience illness and healthcare as patients. Listening carefully to stories of how race, class, age, gender, sexuality, and disability can affect patient experience can be revealing and provide much needed change to health communication in the patienthood narrative. This book is a collection of vibrant and engaging essays by scholars of narrative methods in health communication. Each chapter takes readers into the fascinating world of patie...

व्रात्य बसु अपने आपमें नाटक की एक पाठशाला हैं। वे नाटककार, अभिनेता, निर्देशक, नाट्य समीक्षक एवं बेहतरीन फिल्म निर्देशक हैं, जिनकी पैनी दृष्टि और सूक्ष्म विवेचन नाटक के छोटे से छोटे शिल्प को भी महत्त्वपूर्ण बनाकर मंच से लेकर फिल्म तक पहुँचा देती है। नाट्य विधा को मनुष्य जीवन का सहज प्रकाशन मानने वाले व्रात्य बसु के नाटक समाज-परिवर्तन की ठोस भूमि निर्मित करने में मील का पत्थर माने जा सकते हैं। इनके नाटकों की बौद्धिकता और मानवीय भावनाएँ अपनी स्थानीयता को प्रकट करते-करते दिन ब दिन वैश्विक होती...

This book examines the discourse of a "post-AIDS" culture, and the medical-discursive shift from crisis and death to survival and living. Contributions from a diverse group of international scholars interrogate and engage with the cultural, social, political, scientific, historical, global, and local consumptions of the term "post-AIDS" from the perspective of meaning-making on health, illness, and well-being.The chapters critique and connect meanings of "post-AIDS" to topics such ...

This book offers strong rationales for adopting a critical view of health communication by demonstrating how theories and critical practices can be enriched by foregrounding issues of power, politics, and culture.In health communication, critical approaches highlight the role of communication in constituting, reinforcing, and resisting inequitable power relations that underlie the sociocultural and structural barriers to well-being. This book highlights the theoretical and practica...