Includes bibliographical references.

Health communication: where have we been and where can we go? / Teresa L. Thompson ... [et al.] -- Story as medicine: empirical research on the healing effects of health narratives / Sunwolf, Lawrence R. Frey & Jason Lesko -- New technologies and health communication / Kevin Wright -- Social marketing and organizational communication efficacy: improving health related behavior to identified populations / Gerald R. Ledlow, James A. Johnson & Mikiyasu Hakoyama -- Cultural competence and barriers to the delivery of healthcare / Scott D. Moore & Jerry Thurston -- Communicating health beliefs and practices / Joy L. Hart & Kandi L. Walker -- Explaining illness to children: conceptualizations and strategies / Brian Whaley & Tim Edgar -- Communication with the aging patient / Jon F. Nussbaum & Craig Fowler -- Cross-cultural differences in choices of health information by older cancer patients and their family caregivers / Lisa Sparks & Jeannie McPherson -- End-of-life communication: the drama of pretense in the talk of dying patients and their M.D.s / Sandy Ragan & Joy Goldsmith -- Communication within the comprehensive geriatric assessment / Laura Ellingson -- Communication and cancer prevention, control, and care / Gary L. Kreps & Ellen Bonaguro -- Relational agency during life-threatening illnesses / H. Dan O'Hair & Lisa Sparks -- Alzheimer's caregiving issues / Jim L. Query Jr, Jane A. Stuart & Mindi Ann Golden -- Interpersonal communication issues in conversations about sexually transmitted diseases / Patricia Amason & Lynne M. Webb -- Preventing green tobacco sickness in farming youth: a behavior adaptation approach to health communication in health campaigns / Roxanne Parrott & Lindsey Polonec.