1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910146144303321

Autore

Parrott Roxanne

Titolo

Talking about health [[electronic resource] ] : why communication matters / / Roxanne Parrott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

ISBN

1-282-13942-8

9786612139420

1-4051-7756-X

1-4443-1083-6

1-4443-1082-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Collana

Communication in the public interest

Disciplina

610.69/6

610.696

Soggetti

Communication in medicine

Interpersonal communication

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Talking about Health; Contents; Preface; 1 Why Communicating about Health Matters; It Answers the Question, "Who Am I?"; It Answers the Question, "Who's Responsible?"; It Opens the Gate for "Resources"; It Promotes (Mis)Understanding; It Guides Effort, Emotion, and Excuses; Summing It Up . . .; 2 How "Normal" Am I?; Compared to the Numbers; Compared to the Stories; When It Comes to Poor Health; When Choosing Alternative Treatments; When We Don't Want To Know; Summing It Up . . .; 3 What Are My "Risk" Factors?; Our Response to Reward Cues; Our Response to Punishment Cues; How We View Novelty

When We ProcrastinateWhat God Has To Do with It; Summing It Up . . .; 4 Why Don't We Get "Care"?; Our Doctors Didn't Recommend It; Family or Friends Don't Support It; We Use Support Networks; We're Managing Impressions; We're too Optimistic or Fatalistic; Summing It Up . . .; 5 Is the "Public Good" Good for Me?; When We Have to "Tell"; When Our Freedoms Are Limited; When Safety Clashes with (E)Quality; What Nonprofits Have to Do with It; Why Public Health Matters; Summing It



Up . . .; 6 Who Profits from My Health?; Pharma-, Cosme-, and Nutri-ceuticals; The News, It Is an Industry

The Entertainment IndustryBand-Aids, Crutches, and More - Oh My!; Who Benefits from our Health Illiteracy?; Summing It Up . . .; 7 What's Politics Got To Do with It?; Medical Research and Disparities; Political Agenda-setting and Priorities; Religious Agendas and Priorities; Medical Associations and Lobbyists; Patient Advocacy; Summing It Up . . .; 8 An Agenda for the Twenty-first Century: Increase Informed Choice and Consent, or "If I Ran the Circus . . ."; Make "Personalized Medicine" Personal; Be Timely in the Telling; Fill in the Blanks

Track Your Health Report (. . . and Your Credit Report, Too)Stay Out of "The Big Muddy"; Summing It Up . . .; A Final Thought; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Written by an award-winning researcher and professor whose work straddles the fields of communication and healthcare, Talking About Health explores the importance of health communication in the 21st century, and how it affects us all. Organized around six key questions about health and communication:  How 'Normal' am I? What are My 'Risk' Factors? Why Don't We Get 'Care'? Is the Public Good 'Good' for Me? Who Profits from My Health? and What's Politics Got to Do with It?Provides readers with specific tools which which to bette



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910811930303321

Autore

Esch Gerald W.

Titolo

Ecological parasitology : reflections on 50 years of research in aquatic ecosystems / / Gerald W. Esch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-118-87484-6

1-118-87486-2

1-118-87485-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (195 p.)

Disciplina

591.7/857

Soggetti

Parasitology - Environmental aspects

Aquatic habitats

Habitat (Ecology)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Title Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""The Players""; ""Microbiographies""; ""Closing comments""; ""References""; ""1 The Beginning""; ""References""; ""2 The End of the Beginning""; ""References""; ""3 Gull Lake and the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station""; ""References""; ""4 Gull Lake and the Connection with the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory""; ""References""; ""5 Development of Some Conceptual Notions""; ""References""; ""6 The Pond: Part I""; ""References""; ""7 The Pond: Part II""; ""References""; ""8 The Big Lake""; ""References""

""9 The Strigeids""""References""; ""10 Some Small Streams and Small Ponds""; ""References""; ""11 Red Sore Disease""; ""References""; ""12 The End, Almost""; ""References""; ""13 The Catastrophic Collapse of the Larval Trematode Component Community in Charlie's Pond (North Carolina)""; ""References""; ""14 An Epilogue: What's Involved with Graduate School?""; ""What to look for if you are being recruited""; ""Planning your program""; ""The student's advisory committees""; ""Special skill requirements""; ""Handling the special exams""; ""Writing and defending the thesis/dissertation""



""Publishing papers and selection of the journal""""Collaboration""; ""Graduation (and sometimes a postdoc experience)""; ""Would you do it again?""; ""End User License Agreement""