Communicating About Health: Current Issues and Perspectives - Softcover

Du Pre, Athena; Cook Overton, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019766430X ISBN 13: 9780197664308

Publisher: OUP USA, 2023

Synopsis

The print edition is no longer stocked, but a discounted e-book is available for purchase.

About this title

About the Author

Athena du Prè, Ph.D. is a professor of communication and director of the Strategic Communication & Leadership master's degree program and the Health Communication Leadership graduate-level certificate program at the University of West Florida. Her research interests include patient-caregiver communication, coping with health crises, humor and healing, and workplace dynamics. Dr. du Pré is a former journalist and hospital public relations director. She received a Ph.D. in communication from the University of Oklahoma in 1995. Since joining the UWF faculty, she has twice been honored with Distinguished Teaching Awards by the student body. She is also co-author, with Ron Adler and George Rodman, of Oxford's Understanding Human Communication and Essential Communication.

Barbara Cook Overton earned a Ph.D. in Health Communication from Louisiana State University and is the author of Unintended Consequences of Electronic Medical Records: An Emergency Room Ethnography (2019).

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019766430X
• ISBN 13: 9780197664308
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432