Making health public: how news coverage is remaking media, medicine, and contemporary life
By: Briggs, Charles L
Contributor(s): Hallin, Daniel C
Language: English Publisher: United Kingdom -- Routledge -- 2016Description: xvii, 239pISBN: 9781138999862Subject(s): Social Science | Social problems | Physical illnesses | Health educationDDC classification: 362.1 BRI/M Summary: 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.
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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.