Health Communication for Social Justice: A Whole Person Activist Approach resonates with and inspires readers of all scholarly backgrounds. Dr. Vinita Agarwal conceptualizes health and its effective communication in terms of urgent health crises, the lived experiences of health inequity, and the necessity of advocacy.
Robin E. Jensen, University of Utah, USA
Health Communication for Social Justice: A Whole Person Activist Approach is a much needed, timely, and cutting-edge comprehensive textbook that centralizes the logic of diversity, equity, and inclusion in studying communication processes of health, health-care, and wellbeing in the post-pandemic Era. This is a must-buy book!
Shinsuke Eguchi, University of New Mexico, USA
Enduring and emergent health disparities necessitate an approach that recognizes the multi-faceted nature of being and doing health and commits to positive change. The Whole Person, Social Justice Activist Approach provided herein is a much-needed and integral read for students interested in health across disciplines.
Charee M. Thompson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Health Communication for Social Justice: A Whole Person Activist Approach provides important and necessary perspectives on health communication in an increasingly-diverse and rapidly-changing global society.
James O. Olufowote, University of Oklahoma, USA
This is a unique textbook for undergraduate and graduate students in the sense that it offers a nuanced approach to understanding health from a wholistic perspective while highlighting the ways in which health plays out for those living at the margins of our society. Theorists and practitioners will find this an invaluable resource.
Ambar Basu, University of South Florida, USA Health Communication for Social Justice: A Whole Person Activist Approach resonates with and inspires readers of all scholarly backgrounds. Dr. Vinita Agarwal conceptualizes health and its effective communication in terms of urgent health crises, the lived experiences of health inequity, and the necessity of advocacy.
Robin E. Jensen, University of Utah, USA
Health Communication for Social Justice: A Whole Person Activist Approach is a much needed, timely, and cutting-edge comprehensive textbook that centralizes the logic of diversity, equity, and inclusion in studying communication processes of health, health-care, and wellbeing in the post-pandemic Era. This is a must-buy book!
Shinsuke Eguchi, University of New Mexico, USA
Enduring and emergent health disparities necessitate an approach that recognizes the multi-faceted nature of being and doing health and commits to positive change. The Whole Person, Social Justice Activist Approach provided herein is a much-needed and integral read for students interested in health across disciplines.
Charee M. Thompson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Health Communication for Social Justice: A Whole Person Activist Approach provides important and necessary perspectives on health communication in an increasingly-diverse and rapidly-changing global society.
James O. Olufowote, University of Oklahoma, USA
This is a unique textbook for undergraduate and graduate students in the sense that it offers a nuanced approach to understanding health from a wholistic perspective while highlighting the ways in which health plays out for those living at the margins of our society. Theorists and practitioners will find this an invaluable resource.
Ambar Basu, University of South Florida, USA
"Health Communication for Social Justice is a timely and innovative contribution to both the health communication and social justice activist literatures. Agarwal offers a guide for students working to move beyond introductory understandings of communication scholarship to envision connections and establish a sense of their own research identity and commitments."
Robin E. Jensen & Gabrielle Yvonne Garza, University of Utah, USA, book review in Health Communication