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Informationen zum Autor Vickie L. Harvey is professor of communication studies at California State University, Stanislaus.Teresa Heinz Housel is associate professor of communication at Hope College. Klappentext This edited volume fills an important gap in health communication, exploring the significant disparities in access to health care and health coverage that LGBT individuals and their families face. With cutting-edge empirical research, the essays examine the social and structural factors that lead to the stigma and discrimination that LGBT populations experience. Zusammenfassung This edited volume fills an important gap in health communication! exploring the significant disparities in access to health care and health coverage that LGBT individuals and their families face. With cutting-edge empirical research! the essays examine the social and structural factors that lead to the stigma and discrimination that LGBT populations experience. Inhaltsverzeichnis ForewordGary L. Kreps ForewordAllan D. PeterkinPart I: Constructing Identity by Coming Out to Your Physician 1.An Introduction to the Loosely Knit Patchwork of LGBT Health CareTeresa Heinz Housel and Vickie L. Harvey 2.The Importance of Sexual Orientation Disclosure to Physicians for Women Who Have Sex with WomenKarina Willes and Mike Allen 3.Coming Out Conversations and Gay/Bisexual Men's Sexual Health: A Constitutive Model StudyJimmie Manning 4.Shaping Self with the Doctor: The Construction of Identity for Trans PatientsKaty Ross, Juliann C. Scholl, and Gina Castle BellPart II: Access, Disparities and Harassment Under the Guise of Policies 5.Health Insurance Coverage For Same-Sex Couples: Disparities and Trends under DOMAGilbert Gonzales, Ryan Moltz, and Miriam King 6.Carving Triangles into Squares: The Effects of LGBTQ Stigma Related Stressors During Youth, Adulthood, and AgingDawn L. Strongin, Marc J. Silva, and Fredrick Smiley 7.Reproductive Physicians' Treatment of Lesbian Patients in Germany and the United StatesAlicia VandeVusse Part III: Silencing, Violence, and Other Forms of Intimidation of LGBT People8.Limiting Transgender Health: Administrative Violence and Microaggressions in Health Care SystemsSonny Nordmarken and Reese Kelly 9.Women's Health, Health Care Service Utilization, and Experience of Intimate Partner Violence in the United StatesBethany Coston10.Political Activism as a Health-Giving Activity: Transforming Silence into Language and ActionMichael Warren Tumolo...
