Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication

Nelya Koteyko is Professor of Language and Communication in the School of Arts at Queen Mary University of London. She is co-author, with Kevin Harvey, of Exploring Health Communication: Language in Action (Routledge, 2012)Kevin Harvey is Associate Professor of Discourse Analysis in the School of English, University of Nottingham.Daniel Hunt is Associate Professor of Discourse Analysis in the School of English, University of Nottingham.Gavin Brookes is Reader in Linguistics and English Language within the School of Social Sciences at Lancaster University. He has co-authored The Language of Patient Feedback- A Corpus Linguistic Study of Online Health Communication (Routledge 2022), Historical Medical Discourse-Corpus Linguistic Perspectives (Routledge 2025), Masculinities and Language (Routledge, 2025) etc.

• Introduction: Language and health in the changing communication landscape N Koteyko, K Harvey, G Brookes, D Hunt; Individuals' everyday health communication: Health communication ‘noise’: Insights from medical anthropology Nancy J. Burke, Judith C. Barker ; Speaking your health Mark R. Luborsky; Perceived risk and health risk communication Erika A. Waters, Amy McQueen, Linda D. Cameron; If numbers could speak Zarcadoolas, Wendy Vaughon; Corpus linguistics and evidence-based health communication Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, Kevin Harvey; A linguistic analysis of diabetes patients' talk Ulla Connor, Kathryn Lauten; Health risks and mediated discourse Rodney H. Jones; 1-2 new chapters Additional chapters on risk communication during Covid-19 pandemic. Contesting chemotherapy, amputation, and prosthesis Vaidehi Ramanathan ; Alzheimer's diagnosis on trial Peter A. Lichtenberg, Mark R. Luborsky ; Covid and post-covid health literacy practices – Elena Semino; Health disparities research and practice: The role of language and health communication: Sherrie Flynt Wallington ; Web 2.0 and the changing health communication environment Abby Prestin, Wen-ying Sylvia Chou; Interaction in online support groups: Advice and beyond Wyke Stommel, Joyce Lamerichs ; Persuasion vs. information in direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs Peter J. Schulz, Uwe Hartung; Quality and usefulness of written communication for patients Rosemary Clerehan; Health professionals' communicative practices Why read and write in the clinic?: The contributions of narrative medicine to health care Rita Charon; Presencing in the context of enhancing patient well-being in nursing care Sally Candlin, Christopher N. Candlin ; Transforming medical school culture Richard M. Frankel, Elaina Chen; Communication skills training for resident physicians Benjamin Blatt, Noemi Alice Spinazzi, Larrie Greenberg; Teaching medical students to become discourse analysts Mei-hui Tsai, Feng-hwa Lu, Richard M. Frankel; Exploring communicative interactions between visitors and assisted-living residents with dementia Boyd Davis, Margaret Maclagan, Dena Shenk; Healthcare team communication Melinda M. Villagran, Paula K. Baldwin; Professional activity in the operating theatre Jeff Bezemer; Mental healthcare professionals' role performance Branca Telles Ribeiro, Diana de Souza Pinto, Claudio Gruber Mann Clinical incident reporting, incident investigation, and incident disclosure Rick Iedema ; Patient–provider communication in interaction Before the ‘official diagnosis’: A focus on prediagnostic statements Thomas Spranz-Fogasy ; Digital discourse analysis : M von Rohr, F Thurnherr and M Locher Initiating and responding to delicate concerns about illness and health Wayne A. Beach; Analysis of medical visits to address chronic pain Felicia Roberts, Jennifer S. Kramer; The role of the electronic patient record in the clinical consultation Deborah Swinglehurst, Celia Roberts ; Provider–patient communication about complementary and alternative medicine Evelyn Y. Ho, Christopher J. Koenig ; Negotiation of health, illness, and treatment in Korean Oriental medical discourse Ki-tae Kim ; Midwives' communicative expertise in obstetric ultrasound encounters Srikant Sarangi, Heidi Gilstad ; Genetic counseling in multicultural and multilingual contexts Olga Zayts, Alison Pilnick; Access in cross-linguistic communication Claudia V. Angelelli; The contribution of provider–patient communication to health disparities ByCarma L. Bylund, Emily B. Peterson ; Analyzing ethics-in-interaction in medical decision-making Ellen Barton, Andrew Winckles; Physician–patient communication about cancer clinical trials Richard F. Brown; Medical interaction analysis systems Lee Ellington, McKenzie Carlisle, Maija Reblin ; Donation solicitation in interaction Elizabeth M. Bishop.