Blog 2: Research Topic and 10 Tentative Sources

 

Description of Current Research Interest

I decided to go with my previously suggested topic on health interventions while focusing it on disparities that exist in current health communication outreach. Specifically, my goal is to critique the messaging of health promotion campaigns and how they might alienate working class people of color, a group that--especially among Black and Hispanic/Latino men--has historically been distrustful of Western health practices.

I will be looking at such terms as race, class, socioeconomic status, gender, intersectionality, health disparities, public/perceived trust, community outreach, desired action, rhetorical analysis, audience, documentation, and accessibility. Below is a list of the 10 tentative sources I have found that relate to this subject in one way or another. I have included some books that I checked out from the university library, although I may only use a chapter or two once I explore the subject more.

Tentative Source List

1. Bellwoar, H. (2012). Everyday matters: Reception and use as productive design of health-related texts. Technical Communication Quarterly, 21(4), 325–345. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2012.702533.
2. Crosswell, L., & Porter, L. (2018). Politics, propaganda, and public health: A case study in health communication and public trust. Lexington Books.
3. Gold, R., Bunce, A., Cottrell, E., Marino, M., Middendorf, M., Cowburn, S., Wright, D., Mossman, N., Dambrun, K., Powell, B. J., Gruß, I., Gottlieb, L., Dearing, M., Scott, J., Yosuf, N., & Krancari, M. (2019). Study protocol: A pragmatic, stepped-wedge trial of tailored support for implementing social determinants of health documentation/action in community health centers, with realist evaluation. Implementation Science, 14(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-019-0855-9.
4. Hannah, M. A., & Arduser, L. (2018). Mapping the terrain: Examining the conditions for alignment between the rhetoric of health and medicine and the medical humanities. Technical Communication Quarterly, 27(1), 33–49. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2017.1402561.
5. Hite, A.H., & Carter, A. (2019). Examining assumptions in science-based policy: Critical health communication, stasis theory, and public health nutrition guidance. Rhetoric of Health & Medicine, 2(2), 147-175. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/729141.
6. Molloy, C., Beemer, C., Bennett, J., Green, A., Johnson, J., Kessler, M., ... Siegel-Finer, B. (2018). A dialogue on possibilities for embodied methodologies in the rhetoric of health & medicine. Rhetoric of Health & Medicine, 1(3), 349-371. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/711573.
7. Novotny, M. (2015). reVITALize gynecology: Reimagining apparent feminism's methodology in participatory health intervention projects. Communication Design Quarterly, 3(4), 61-74. https://doi.org/10.1145/2826972.2826978.
8. Schiavo, R. (2007). Health communication: From theory to practice. (1st ed.). Jossey-Bass.
9. Schulz, A. J., & Mullings, L. (Eds.). (2006). Gender, race, class, & health: Intersectional approaches. (1st ed.). Jossey-Bass.
10. Walkup, K. L., & Cannon, P. (2018). Health ecologies in addiction treatment: Rhetoric of health and medicine and conceptualizing care. Technical Communication Quarterly, 27(1), 108–120. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2018.1401352.