Briggs, Charles L.
Making health public: how news coverage is remaking media, medicine, and contemporary life - United Kingdom -- Routledge -- 2016 - xvii, 239p.
pt. 1. Toward a framework for studying biomediatization
pt. 2. Biomediatization up close : three case studies
This book examines the relationship between media and medicine, considering the fundamental role of news coverage in constructing wider cultural understandings of health and disease. The authors advance the notion of 'biomediatization' and demonstrate how health knowledge is co-produced through connections between dispersed sites and forms of expertise. The chapters offer an innovative combination of media content analysis and ethnographic data on the production and circulation of health news, drawing on work with journalists, clinicians, health officials, medical researchers, marketers, and audiences.
9781138999862
Social Science
Social problems
Physical illnesses
Health education
362.1 BRI/M
Making health public: how news coverage is remaking media, medicine, and contemporary life - United Kingdom -- Routledge -- 2016 - xvii, 239p.
pt. 1. Toward a framework for studying biomediatization
pt. 2. Biomediatization up close : three case studies
This book examines the relationship between media and medicine, considering the fundamental role of news coverage in constructing wider cultural understandings of health and disease. The authors advance the notion of 'biomediatization' and demonstrate how health knowledge is co-produced through connections between dispersed sites and forms of expertise. The chapters offer an innovative combination of media content analysis and ethnographic data on the production and circulation of health news, drawing on work with journalists, clinicians, health officials, medical researchers, marketers, and audiences.
9781138999862
Social Science
Social problems
Physical illnesses
Health education
362.1 BRI/M