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.
ISBN: | 9781138999862 |
Publication date: | 27th May 2016 |
Author: | Charles L Briggs, Daniel C Hallin |
Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 258 pages |
Genres: |
The arts: general topics News media and journalism Personal and public health / health education Media studies Social and cultural anthropology Human biology Sociology Anthropology Medical sociology History of medicine History Health & Fitness |