This volume brings together 10 essays that examine health communication approaches. Communication and other social science specialists from Kenya, India, Europe, Australia, and the US discuss narratives of patients and media regarding health and illness, including the role of the internet, media coverage of maternal health, patients' stories of their autoimmune illnesses, and the doctor, patient, and counselor relationship and communication barriers in HIV cases; the relationship between bio-political aspects of medicine, individuals, and communication, including power relations in the medical system, sickness and data-driven health care, science fiction stories about extraterrestrial pregnancies, and public health care in private hospitals in India; and media coverage of health and illness in India and Romania. Annotation ?016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)