Humor and Health in the Media: Raising the Question, Should Illness be Funny? - Couverture rigide

Johnson, Malynnda A.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1032406313 ISBN 13 : 9781032406312

Editeur : Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

Examining popular media portrayals of various health topics, this book offers a critical analysis of how those mediated messages can impact, for good or ill, people's physical and mental health.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Malynnda A. Johnson (PhD, University of WI-Milwaukee, 2012) is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication. She primarily teaches health communication and media studies and various courses, including interviewing and counseling, persuasion, interpersonal communication, media criticism, and cross-cultural communication. She has authored three books on media representations of health topics, including her most recent examining humor's role in our health. Additionally, she is actively working within the medical field, training patient advocates and providers on ways to improve their communication when working with minority groups (specifically, neurodiverse and transgender populations). Both professionally and personally, her goal is to help all people feel their voices are heard and to help make difficult conversations less difficult.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1032406313
• ISBN 13: 9781032406312
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 214
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible