Evaluating Women's Health Messages A Resource Book

Introduction: Priorities and Agendas in Communicating about Women¿s Reproductive Health - Roxanne Louiselle Parrott and Celeste Michelle Condit
PART ONE: POLITICAL AGENDAS AND WOMEN¿S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH MESSAGES
Medical and Psychological Consequences of Legal Abortion in the United States - Diane Helene Miller
A Matter of Consequence - Diane Helene Miller
Abortion Rhetoric and Media Messages
Illicit Drug Use and the Pregnant Woman - Robert Lemieux
The Prevalance, Social Impact, Effects and Legislative Action
The Drama of in utero Drug Exposure - Kimberly N Kline
Fetus Takes First Billing
PART TWO: HISTORICAL ISSUES IN COMMUNICATING ABOUT WOMEN¿S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
Contraception and Clinical Science - Susan Owen and Sally Caudill
Constructing Woman¿s Place
Our Bodies, Our Risk - Martha Solomon, Mary Anne Trasciatti and Cynthia P King
Dilemmas in Contraceptive Information
The American Experience of Childbirth - Elizabeth Jean Nelson
Toward a Range of Safe Choices
Contemporary Birthing Practices - Helen M Sterk
Technology over Humanity?
PART THREE: A FETAL AND MATERNAL HEALTH APPROACH TO COMMUNICATING ABOUT WOMEN¿S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
Women and Smoking - Michael Pfau, Margot L Nelson and Mary Moster
Consequences and Solutions
Tugging at Pregnant Consumers - Deirdre M Condit
Competing ¿Don¿t Smoke!¿ ¿Do Smoke!¿ Media Messages and Their Messengers
Prenatal Alcohol Consumption and Outcomes for Children - Joan Marie Kraft
A Review of the Literature
Knowing When to Say When and Why - Kathryn J French, Theresa D Frasier and C Jay Frasier
Media Messages Aimed at Preventing Women¿s Alcohol Consumption
PART FOUR: A CAMPAIGN PERSPECTIVE FOR COMMUNICATING ABOUT WOMEN¿S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
Promoting Pregnancy and Prenatal Care to Women - Roxanne Louiselle Parrott and Margaret Daniels
Promises, Pitfalls, and Pratfalls
Prenatal Care from a Woman¿s Perspective - Margaret Daniels annd Roxanne Louiselle Parrott
A Thematic Analysis of the Newspaper Media
Cervical, Ovarian, and Uterine Cancer - Melanie A Williams
Advancing Awareness, Choices, and Survival
Magic, Moralism and Marginalization - Michele Kilgore
Media Coverage of Cervical, Ovarian, and Uterine Cancer
PART FIVE: A SOCIAL SUPPORT FRAMEWORK FOR COMMUNICATING ABOUT WOMEN¿S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
Menarche, Menstruation, and Menopause - Pamela J Kalbfleisch and Karen H Bonnel
The Communication of Information and Social Support
Media Portrayals of Women¿s Menstrual Health Issues - Pamela J Kalbfleisch, Karen H Bennel and Tina M Harris
Social Support and Breast Cancer - Maureen P Keeley
Why Do We Talk and To Whom Do We Talk?
An Analysis of Discourse Promoting Mammography - Mary L Kahl and Joan Lawrence-Bauer
Pain, Promise, and Prevention
PART SIX: CONTEMPORARY PRIORITIES IN COMMUNICATING ABOUT WOMEN¿S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
Options and Risks with Reproductive Technologies - Lisa Flores
Media Bias for Reproductive Technologies - Celeste M Condit
Hysterectomies - Cathey S Ross
Don¿t Ask ¿Why Not?¿: Ask ¿Why?¿
Hysterectomy - E M I Sefcovic
What the Popular Press Said (1986-1992)
Women and AIDS - Rebecca J Welch Cline and Neyla J McKenzie
The Lost Population
The Reconstruction of AIDS as a Womens¿s Health Issue - Salome Raheim
CONCLUSION
A Woman-Centered ¿Sense-Making¿ Approach to Communicating about Women¿s Reproductive Health - Roxanne Louiselle Parrott