Language and Health in Action
- Publisher's listprice GBP 35.00
-
15 802 Ft (15 050 Ft + 5% VAT)
The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.
- Discount 10% (cc. 1 580 Ft off)
- Discounted price 14 222 Ft (13 545 Ft + 5% VAT)
Subcribe now and take benefit of a favourable price.
Subscribe
15 802 Ft
Availability
printed on demand
Why don't you give exact delivery time?
Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.
Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 7 May 2026
- ISBN 9780198933922
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages274 pages
- Size 15x171x246 mm
- Weight 476 g
- Language English 685
Categories
Short description:
The book highlights the centrality of language practices and language ideologies in how professionals, individuals, families, and communities navigate illness and pursue health across the lifecourse, in clinical contexts, and beyond.
MoreLong description:
Health and wellbeing are profoundly shaped by communication processes. Language and Health in Action explores these interconnections by bringing together cutting-edge global scholarship from linguistic and medical anthropology. The book highlights the centrality of language practices and language ideologies in how professionals, individuals, families, and communities navigate illness and pursue health across the lifecourse, in clinical contexts, and beyond. Each chapter includes immersive examples from qualitative and ethnographic research, captured in clear and accessible prose. The volume includes a breadth of perspectives on public and global health that include topics such as infectious disease and chronic illness, mental health and addiction, disability, dying, and healing. Contributions shed light on urban and rural settings and the experiences of immigrants, indigenous communities, and other racialized populations. Chapters profile research conducted in Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, South Korea, Mexico, South Africa, Tanzania, and the United States.
The book is organized into five thematic sections: clinical interaction, language access, community and communicability, language and environment, and healing practices. To support student readers and instructors, the book begins with an introduction to key terms in social scientific approaches to language and health, and each chapter includes a series of discussion and reflection questions. The volume demonstrates that linguistic and communicative practices, which are often taken for granted, nevertheless have far-reaching consequences for health outcomes.
Table of Contents:
Foreword: Beyond Linguistic and Medical Anthropology Divides: The Emergence of Critical Synthetic Perspectives Charles L. Briggs
Key Concepts in Language and Health Lynnette Arnold, Jennifer R.Guzmán, Emily Avera and Anna I. Corwin
Section 1. Clinical Interaction: Editors' Introduction
Everyone is "Mom": Speaking Maternalism in US Emergency Departments
Talking about Pain in Traditional Korean Medicine Clinics
Autism Diagnostics as White Public Space in US Clinics
Section 2. Language Access: Editors' Introduction
Health Care Access for Mayan Communities in Kansas
Of Worlds and Words: Medical Interpretation in a US Primary Care Clinic
Translating the Invisible: Intercultural Health Facilitators in Indigenous Chile
Section 3. Community and Communicability: Editors' Introduction
Kansa, Saratani, and Biocommunicability in Coastal Tanzania
The Circulation of Psychoanalytic Discourses beyond the Clinic in Buenos Aires
Facing HIV Stigma with Scientific Medicine in a Bio-Speech Community in South Africa
Section 4. Language and Environment: Editors' Introduction
"I'm still here!": Listening to African American Silences and Narratives of Life on Dialysis in Boston
Water Everywhere, but Is It Safe to Drink?: Risk, Perception, and Public Health in Guatemala
Introducing Xka Pastora, One of the World's Newest "Drugs"
Section 5. Healing Practices: Editors' Introduction
In the Spirit, in the Flesh: Performative Language, Embodiment, and Sustaining Recovery in Appalachia
Caught between Stories of Healing and Migration: Rehabilitation Care for Migrants with Amputations in Mexico
Learning to Experience Dying as a Part of Living: An Individual and Collective Journey
Afterword: The Case for Narrative Competence in the Clinic and Beyond, Mara Buchbinder
