The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication and Popular Culture

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The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication and Popular Culture offers rich insights into the ways in which communication about health through popular culture can become a part of healing, wellness, and health-related decisions.
This Handbook allows readers to understand and consider messages that inform and influence health-related choices through pop culture in the public sphere. Written in an accessible narrative style and including interdisciplinary, global, and diverse perspectives, a vast team of contributing authors from the field explores the intersections between health communication and popular culture. The Handbook is divided into five parts: Framing of Health-Related Issues in Popular Culture  Exploring Popular Culture Influences on Health Behaviors and Beliefs  Considering Pro-Social Public Health Interventions in Popular Culture  Understanding Health Issues in Popular Culture from Diverse Perspectives  and Pop Culture and Health Communication: Looks to the Future.

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