Charles L. Briggs, Daniel C. Hallin

Making Health Public (eBook, PDF)

How News Coverage Is Remaking Media, Medicine, and Contemporary Life

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the relationship between media and medicine. Drawing on insights from anthropology, linguistics, and media studies, it considers 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 of knowledge making and through multiple 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. New to this edition are new case studies, in particular about the COVID-19 pandemic. The first case study looks at pharmaceutical and biotech news, and how journalists portray the flow of information across the boundaries between science and business. The next two case studies examine pandemic news, beginning with the 2009 H1N1 "swine flu" pandemic and continuing to the COVID-19 pandemic. The final case study examines the treatment of race and racism in health news, looking at the ways it interacts with cultural constructions of health citizenship, and the forces that have produced a shift from deracialization of health news to a much stronger focus on race and racism in contemporary health news.

This book is ideal for undergraduate students and scholars across the social sciences, health sciences, cultural studies, and journalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040092071
• Artikelnr.: 72284917

Autorenporträt

Charles L. Briggs is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at UC Berkeley. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. His work combines linguistic and medical anthropology with socio-cultural anthropology and folkloristics.

Daniel C. Hallin is Distinguished Professor of Communication, Emeritus, at the University of California, San Diego, and is a Fellow of the International Communication Association. His work concerns journalism, political communication, and the comparative analysis of media systems.

Inhaltsangabe

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

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Introduction
Part I - Toward a Framework for Studying Biomediatization
Chapter 1 - Biocommunicability: Cultural Models of Knowledge about Health
Chapter 2 - The Daily Work of Biomediatization
Chapter 3 - What Does this Mean "For the Rest of Us?": Frames, Voices, and
the Journalistic Mediation of Health and Medicine
Part II - Biomediatization Up Close: Four Case Studies
Chapter 4 - Finding the "Buzz," Patrolling the Boundaries: Reporting Pharma
and Biotech
Chapter 5 - "You Have to Hit It Hard, Hit It Early": Biomediatizing the
2009 H1N1 Epidemic
Chapter 6 - "We're All in this Together"?: Biomediatization of the COVID-19
Pandemic
Chapter 7 - "We Have to Put that Four-Letter Word, 'Race,' on the Table":
Voicing and Silencing Race and Ethnicity in News Coverage of Health
Chapter 8 - Conclusion

Rezensionen

"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)

"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)