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Evaluating women's health messages : a resource book / Roxanne Louiselle Parrott, Celeste Michelle Condit, editors.

Title: Evaluating women's health messages : a resource book / Roxanne Louiselle Parrott, Celeste Michelle Condit, editors.
Publication: Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, [1996], ©1996.

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xiv, 445 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction: Priorities and Agendas in Communicating About Women's Reproductive Health / Roxanne Louiselle Parrott and Celeste Michelle Condit -- 2. Medical and Psychological Consequences of Legal Abortion in the United States / Diane Helene Miller -- 3. A Matter of Consequence: Abortion Rhetoric and Media Messages / Diane Helene Miller -- 4. Illicit Drug Use and the Pregnant Woman: Prevalence, Social Impact, Effects, and Legislative Action / Robert Lemieux -- 5. The Drama of in Utero Drug Exposure: Fetus Takes First Billing / Kimberly N. Kline -- 6. Contraception and Clinical Science: The Place of Women in Reproductive Technology / Susan A. Owen and Sally A. Caudill -- 7. Our Bodies, Our Risk: Dilemmas in Contraceptive Information / Martha Solomon Watson, Mary Anne Trasciatti and Cynthia P. King -- 8. The American Experience of Childbirth: Toward a Range of Safe Choices / Elizabeth Jean Nelson --
9. Contemporary Birthing Practices: Technology Over Humanity? / Helen M. Sterk -- 10. Women and Smoking: Consequences and Solutions / Michael Pfau, Margot L. Nelson and Mary Moster -- 11. Tugging at Pregnant Consumers: Competing "Smoke!" "Don't Smoke!" Media Messages and Their Messengers / Deirdre M. Condit -- 12. Prenatal Alcohol Consumption and Outcomes for Children: A Review of the Literature / Joan Marie Kraft -- 13. Knowing When to Say When and Why: Media Messages Aimed at Preventing Women's Alcohol Consumption / Kathryn J. French, Theresa D. Frasier and C. Jay Frasier -- 14. Promoting Prenatal and Pregnancy Care to Women: Promises, Pitfalls, and Pratfalls / Roxanne Louiselle Parrott and Margaret J. Daniels -- 15. Prenatal Care From the Woman's Perspective: A Thematic Analysis of the Newspaper Media / Margaret J. Daniels and Roxanne Louiselle Parrott -- 16. Cervical, Ovarian, and Uterine Cancer: Advancing Awareness, Choices, and Survival / Melanie Ayn Williams --
17. Magic, Moralism, and Marginalization: Media Coverage of Cervical, Ovarian, and Uterine Cancer / Michele Kilgore -- 18. Menarche, Menstruation, and Menopause: The Communication of Information and Social Support / Pamela J. Kalbfleisch and Karen H. Bonnell -- 19. Media Portrayals of Women's Menstrual Health Issues / Pamela J. Kalbfleisch, Karen H. Bonnell and Tina M. Harris -- 20. Social Support and Breast Cancer: Why Do We Talk and to Whom Do We Talk? / Maureen P. Keeley -- 21. An Analysis of Discourse Promoting Mammography: Pain, Promise, and Prevention / Mary L. Kahl and Joan Lawrence-Bauer -- 22. Options and Risks With Reproductive Technologies / Lisa A. Flores -- 23. Media Bias for Reproductive Technologies / Celeste Michelle Condit -- 24. Hysterectomies: Don't Ask "Why Not?" ... Ask "Why?" / Cathey S. Ross -- 25. Hysterectomy: What the Popular Press Said (1986-1992) / E. M. I. Sefcovic --
26. Women and AIDS: The Lost Population / Rebecca J. Welch Cline and Nelya J. McKenzie -- 27. The Reconstruction of AIDS as a Women's Health Issue / Salome Raheim -- 28. Conclusion: A Woman-Centered "Sense-Making" Approach to Communicating About Women's Reproductive Health / Roxanne Louiselle Parrott.

ISBN

0761900578 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
076190056X (cloth : acid-free paper)

LCCN

95032514

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Columbia University Libraries