The Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication (Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics)

This completely revised and updated new edition of The Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication examines how linguistic and multimodal practices organize health communication in systems reshaped by digital media and Covid-19.Leading international scholars from anthropology, applied linguistics, media studies, health informatics, and social psychology explore how health and illness accounts are produced across clinical, policy, and everyday contexts. Organized into three sections-individuals' everyday health communication, health professionals' practices, and patient-provider interaction-the handbook analyzes encounters between patients and professionals, health discourse circulation on social media, and multimodal care construction.Case studies include online health communities, Covid-19 memes, digital crowdfunding, and public health communication across diverse cultural settings. This fully revised edition features a new editorial team, introduction, and five new chapte