Making health public : how news coverage is remaking media, medicine, and contemporary life / Charles L. Briggs and Daniel C. Hallin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Briggs, Charles L., 1953- author.

Hallin, Daniel C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media in health education.

Health promotion.

Medicine--Vocational guidance.

Medicine.

Health Education.

Medical Subjects:

Health Education.

Physical Description:

xvii, 239 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

Making Health Public 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. The volume provides students and scholars with unique insight into the significance and complexity of what health news does and how it is created. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Toward a framework for studying biomediatization 21

1 Biocomrnunicability: cultural models of knowledge about health 23

2 The daily work of biomediatization 51

3 What does this mean "for the rest of us?": frames, voices, and the journalistic mediation of health and medicine 77

Part II Biomediatization up close: three case studies 105

4 "You have to hit it hard, hit it early": biomediatizing the 2009 H1N1 epidemic 107

5 Finding the "buzz," patrolling the boundaries: reporting pharma and biotech 139

6 "We have to put that four-letter word, 'race,' on the table": voicing and silencing race and ethnicity in news coverage of health 165.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138999879

1138999873

9781138999862

1138999865

OCLC:

921864328