Editor Srikant Sarangi Cardiff University, UK

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Since its inception in 2004, Communication & Medicine has been consistently interrogating the `black box’ of what is routinely characterised as `the communicative turn’ in healthcare practice in clinical and public health domains. It is now firmly established as a leading forum for these critical debates.

Notice Regarding Volumes 1-4
For print copies of Volumes 1-4 as well as online access for those issues please contact the former publisher, Mouton De Gruyter.

Aims and Scope
Communication & Medicine continues to abide by the following distinctive aims:

• To consolidate different traditions of discourse and communication research in its commitment to an understanding of psychosocial, cultural and ethical aspects of healthcare in contemporary societies.

• To cover the different specialities within medicine and allied healthcare studies.

• To underscore the significance of specific areas and themes by bringing out special issues from time to time.

• To be fully committed to publishing evidence-based, data-driven original studies with practical application and relevance as key guiding principles.

• To be targeted at an interdisciplinary audience, which will include healthcare professionals and researchers and students in the medical, social and human sciences.

• To promote a reader-friendly style and format, including engagements with debates and dialogues on crosscutting themes of topical significance.

The editor is supported by an internationally acclaimed, interdisciplinary advisory board, selectively drawn to represent the well-established traditions of the medical, social and human sciences.

Contents of Next Issue
Volume 8 Issue 1

DEBORAH SWINGLEHURST, CELIA ROBERTS, TRISHA GREENHALGH
Opening up the ‘black box’ of the electronic patient record: A linguistic ethnographic study in general practice
ROXANA DELBENE
Patients’ narratives of chronic illnesses and the notion of biographical disruption
WEN-YING SYLVIA CHOU, PAUL HAN, ALISON PILSNER, KISHA COA, LARRIE GREENBERG, BENJAMIN (JIM) BLATT
Interdisciplinary research on patient-provider communication: A cross-method comparision
ROBYN WOODWARD-KRON, ELEANOR FLYNN, CLARE DELANEY
Combining interdisciplinary and International Medical Graduate perspectives to teach clinical and ethical communication using multimedia
MICHAEL ARRIBAS-AYLLON, SRIKANT SARANGI, ANGUS CLARKE
Promissory strategies of personalisation in the commercialisation of genomic knowledge
SARAH BIGI
The persuasive role of ethos in doctor-patient interactions
BENJAMIN SAUNDERS
‘Sometimes you’ve just got to have fun, haven’t you?’: The discursive construction of social drinking practices in young adults’ accounts of chronic illness
ELIZABETH A JACOBS
An exploratory study of how trust in health care institutions varies across African American, Hispanic and white populations
PETER J. SCHULZ, UWE HARTUNG
What to eat in the land of cheese and chocolate: A content analysis of Swiss print media messages on a healthy diet

Indexing and Abstracting
Bibliography of Linguistic Literature/Bibliographie Linguistischer Literature (BLL)
ComAbstracts
ComIndex
EBSCO Communicatioin and Mass Media Index
EBSCO Current Abstracts
EMBASE
IBZ International Bibliography of Periodical Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences
IBR International Bilbiography of Book Reviews of Scholary Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Linguistics and Language Behaviour Abstracts
MEDLINE
OCLC Electronic Collections Online
Proquest Academic Research Library
Proquest Central
Proquest Health & Medical Complete
Proquest Health Management
ProQuest Medical Library
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
Scopus

Publication and Frequency: 3 issues per year from 2011 (volume 8)
ISSN: 1612-1783 (print)
ISSN: 1613-3625 (online)

Professor Srikant Sarangi
Health Communication Research Centre
Cardiff University
Humanities Building
Colum Drive
Cardiff CF10 3EU (UK)