Embodied Mediations: Health Communication at the Intersection of Experience, Technology, and Governance

Abstract

Health communication scholarship continues to evolve at the intersection of embodied experience, technological transformation, and the politics of care. This issue assembles nine original contributions—six research articles and three reviews—that collectively probe how health meanings are constructed, contested, and circulated across diverse contexts. From the intimate phenomenology of pregnancy to the algorithmic logics of AI medicine, from the narrative architecture of global health campaigns to the information avoidance patterns of aging populations, these studies trace a coherent intellectual arc: one that moves from the micro-politics of individual bodies to the macro-structures of mediatized governance, while insisting on communication as both the medium and the stake of health equity.