TABLE OF CONTENTS :
1. Rationale for studying health communication
2. Medical professionals as effective communicators
3. Tha interplay of health, communication and culture
4. Healthcare system in health communication
5. Worldviews, beliefs, and values in health communication
6. The complexity of language in therapeutic communication
7. Body language in therapeutic communication
8. Health consumer participation, medical dominance and digital ethic in indonesia : the prita case
9. People with lobster-claw syndrome : a study of oligodactyly suffers and their communication experiences in the village of ulutaue, south sulawesi, indonesia