Intercultural Health Communication

Andrew R. Spieldenner (Ph.D., Howard University) is Associate Professor of Health Communication at California State University-San Marcos. He serves as Vice-Chair of the US People Living with HIV Caucus and represents Civil Society as North American Delegate to UNAIDS. Satoshi Toyosaki (Ph.D., Southern Illinois University) is Associate Professor in the Department of Languages, Cultures, and International Trade as well as the Department of Linguistics at Southern Illinois University. His recent research interests include critical intercultural communication, intercultural education, and international studies.

Andrew R. Spieldenner/Gloria N. Pindi/Satoshi Toyosaki: Introduction: Intercultural Health Communication Studies – Engaging Interdisciplinary Approaches: Analysis, Interpretation, Critique, and Action – Yea-Wen Chen/Sarah Parsloe: Health Narratives and Body Politics on the Margins: Proposing Six Principles of "EMBODY" with Cultural Others – Shinsuke Eguchi: Queer(ing) Spaces: Sexualities as Critical Intersections among Health and Intercultural Communication – Katie D. Scott/Tina M. Harris: The Construction of Women and Their Health Across Cultures – Annette Madlock Gatison: Moving beyond Awareness Social Media in Health and Policy Communication: The Case of the Black Women’s Health Imperative’s Black Women Vote 2018 National Health Policy Agenda – Engaging Selfhoods: Contextual Complexity between Biomedical and Cultural Narratives – Gloria N. Pindi: "I’m Not Sick, I’m Hairy": Cultural Constructions of Women’s Bodies in the Ob/Gyn Exam – Tomeka M. Robinson: People of Color Don’t Get That: An Analytic Autoethnography of Living with Celiac Disease – Engaging Communities: Communal Complexity, Identity Politics, and Advocacy – Ambar Basu, Patrick J. Dillon/Shaunak Sastry/Nivethitha Ketheeswaran: HIV Drugs [Are] Like My Birth Control Pill: Lived Narratives of Black and Latino MSM in an Urban American Context – Spring Cooper/P. Christopher Palmedo: Social Media as a Transformative Force in Intercultural Health Communications: A Case Study of the BADASS Army – Leandra H. Hernández: Mexican-American Women, Prenatal Testing, and Definitions of Fetal Health: Challenging Social Perceptions of What Is "Healthy" – Mohan J. Dutta/Satveer Kaur-Gill: Health in the Margins: Cultural Borders in Contestation – Lara Lengel/Adam Smidi/Nora Abdul-Aziz: Transcending In/Visibility, Isolation, and Stigma: Trauma- Inforced and Culture-Centric Mental Health – Jillian A. Tullis: Searching for a Good Death – Classrooms: Meaningful Complexity of Teaching and Learning –Satoshi Toyosaki/Patrick Seick/Shelby Swafford/Darren J. Valenta/Lindy Wagner: Critical Intercultural Health Communication Pedagogy: An Autoethnographic Approach – Phillip E. Wagner: Photovoice and Photobodies: Public Pedagogies of Health – Kallia O. Wright: When Cultural Identity Impacts Health Decisions: Using Grey’s Anatomy to Teach Communication Theory of Identity and Agency-Identity Model –Satoshi Toyosaki/Andrew R. Spieldenner: Intercultural Health Communication Studies: Looking Forward –About the Contributors – Index.

“This edited volume provides a rich intersectional compilation from different expert scholars on how race, gender, sexuality, and even religion interplay with and inform culture and health. It underlines how each of these constructs are intrinsically essential to the inquiry of human communication, identity, and health behaviors.
I always encourage students to interrogate the required readings; to ask of it if their lived experiences are accurately and thoroughly depicted. I want them to become critical thinkers who push the boundaries of our heteronormative, patriarchal, typically binary scholarship and research. This book offers the groundwork for what inclusive, robust scholarship should look like. Each chapters of this text provides dynamic, transparent, even healing confirmation of how the multi-layered realities of the individual interplay with health.
I am appreciative to be able to add this text to my canonical of highly-regarded books.”
—Angela Cooke-Jackson, Associate Professor, Health Communication and Behavioral Science, California State University, Los Angeles