Language, Literacy, and Health
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-0088-2 (ISBN)
Language, Literacy, and Health: Discourse in Brazil´s National Health System analyzes language, literacy, and health as social practices, with a focus on Brazil´s national health system, the Unified Health System (SUS). The SUS was established in the 1990s, offering free consultations, health promotion activities, and home visits by a professional team to the Brazilian population, and of particular interest is the Family Health Strategy program. This book is based on research conducted in two different Brazilian regions, the Northeast and the Southeast. Izabel Magalhães and Kênia Lara da Silva discuss language and literacy as discourse—a very important dimension of health practice—and different uses of texts, including multimodal texts. The research and analysis, and the authors’ ethnographic approach, bring to light some issues with SUS practices, and the authors suggest improvements. The book contributes to the debate about language and literacy in health practices, in which patients are partly responsible for keeping well.
Izabel Magalhães is a researcher in discourse analysis and literacy. Kênia Lara da Silva is part of the teaching staff of the Graduate Program in Nursing of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: The Ethnographic-Discursive Method, the Research Projects and the Theoretical Approach
Chapter 1: The Ethnographic-Discursive Method: Four Research Projects in Brazil
Chapter 2: Discourse Analysis, Literacy Studies and Multimodality: Health Practice and the Therapeutic Bond
Part 2: Health Literacies
Chapter 3: Contributions of the Study of Language and Literacy as a Social Practice to Health
Chapter 4: Literacy Practices and Literacy Events in Health
Chapter 5: Texts and Narratives in Healthcare
Part 3: Evaluation and Discursive Representation in Healthcare
Chapter 6: Patients’ Evaluations
Chapter 7: Health Professionals’ Evaluations
Chapter 8: Health Discourses and Practices on the Ground
Part 4: Case Studies in Language and Health
Chapter 9: Case Study 1: Health Professionals
Chapter 10: Case Study 2: Patients
Part 5: Social Change in Health Practice
Chapter 11: Health Professional Education: The Education of the Nursing Technician and the Representation of the Unified Health System (SUS)
Chapter 12: Making Patients Responsible for their Health: The Construction of Health Discourse in a Community of Belo Horizonte
Conclusion
References
About the Authors
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.08.2021 |
|---|---|
| Co-Autor | Júlia Argenta, Rebeca Pereira |
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 159 x 238 mm |
| Gewicht | 653 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-7936-0088-0 / 1793600880 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-7936-0088-2 / 9781793600882 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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