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

By: Briggs, Charles L, 1953- [author.].
Contributor(s): Hallin, Daniel C [author.].
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Routledge, ©2016Description: xvii, 239 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.Content type: text. ISBN: 9781138999879 (hardback : alk. paper); 9781138999862 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Mass media in health education | Health promotion | Medicine -- Vocational guidanceDDC classification: 362.1/B768 Other classification: GRef/HS
Contents:
Pt. 1. Toward a framework for studying biomediatization -- pt. 2. Biomediatization up close : three case studies.
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. The volume provides students and scholars with unique insight into the significance and complexity of what health news does and how it is created
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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