Abstract
At the center of questions posed about power are issues of embodiment—which bodies are judged to be healthy and which are not, which identities are affirmed or privileged and which are stigmatizes or marginalized, which material practices are pathologized and which are lauded. Critical health communication research may be enacted by critical-interpretive researchers who employ critical theorizing frameworks that guide their questions posed, co-construction of data, and forms of analysis and representation.
Highlights
At the center of critical questions posed about power and health communication are issues of embodiment—whose bodies are judged to be healthy and whose are not, which identities are affirmed and privileged and which are stigmatized and marginalized, which material practices are pathologized and which are lauded
I was among the scholars who decried the lack of embodiment in health communication research (Ellingson, 2006)
This essay documents meaningful progress in incorporating critical embodiment theorizing as part of the larger rise to prominence of Critical health communication (CHC) research
Summary
Departments of Communication and Women’s and Gender Studies, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, United States. At the center of critical questions posed about power and health communication are issues of embodiment—whose bodies are judged to be healthy and whose are not, which identities are affirmed and privileged and which are stigmatized and marginalized, which material practices are pathologized and which are lauded. Critical health communication (CHC) research may be enacted by critical-interpretive researchers who employ critical embodiment theorizing frameworks that guide their questions posed, co-construction of data, and forms of analysis and representation. CHC researchers are uniquely poised to attend to the embodied aspects of health, illness, health care delivery, and public health in order to improve the health of local and global communities.
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