Making Health Public
How News Coverage Is Remaking Media, Medicine, and Contemporary Life
1st Edition
Published on 27. May 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
258 pages
978-1-138-99986-2 (ISBN)
Description
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. The volume provides students and scholars with unique insight into the significance and complexity of what health news does and how it is created.
Reviews / Votes
"Briggs and Hallin have crafted a well-written and engaging text that provides a useful framework for studying health and disease in the 21st century. This book has the potential to inspire anthropologists to take more seriously the role of media in the production and circulation of medical and lay knowledge about health and disease. Biomediatization is an especially valuable contribution to medical anthropology, and the concept could easily take a place alongside and re-shape understandings of many popular conceptual frameworks in medical anthropology such as biomedicalization, biocommunicability, embodiment, performativity/enactment, and pharmaceuticalization."- William J. Robertson, Anthropology Book Forum (American Anthropological Association)
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
22 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 8 s/w Tabellen
8 Tables, black and white; 22 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
428 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-99986-2 (9781138999862)
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Making Health Public
How News Coverage Is Remaking Media, Medicine, and Contemporary Life
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Charles L. Briggs | Daniel C. Hallin
Making Health Public
How News Coverage Is Remaking Media, Medicine, and Contemporary Life
Book
05/2016
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Persons
Charles L. Briggs is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. His work combines linguistic and medical anthropology with socio-cultural anthropology and folkloristics.
Daniel C. Hallin is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego, USA. His work concerns journalism, political communication, and the comparative analysis of media systems.?
Daniel C. Hallin is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego, USA. His work concerns journalism, political communication, and the comparative analysis of media systems.?
Content
Introduction 1. Biocommunicability: Cultural Models of the Production and Circulation of Health Knowledge 2. The Day-to-Day Work of Biomediatization 3. "What Does This Mean for the Rest of Us?" Frames, Voices and the Journalistic Mediation of Health and Medicine 4. "You have to Hit It Early, Hit It Hard": Making "Swine Flu," Preparing for the Next Pandemic 5. Finding the "Buzz," Patrolling the Boundaries: Reporting Pharma and Biotech 6. "Putting that Four-Letter Word on the Table": Voicing and Silencing Race in News Coverage of Health. Conclusion