Health and Risk Communication

Health and Risk Communication provides a critical and comprehensive overview of the core issues surrounding health and risk communication from the perspective of applied linguistics.

Rodney H. Jones is Associate Professor of English at City University of Hong Kong.

1. Communicating Health and Risk 2. Applied Linguistics: Discourse in Action 3. Entextualizing Health and Risk 4. Sites of Engagement 5. Beyond the Clinic 6. Health, Risk and the Entextualized Body 7. Virtual Bodies 8. Cultures, Communities and Social Networks 9. Discourse Itineraries and Research Itineraries