Making Health Public: How News Coverage Is Remaking Media, Medicine, and Contemporary Life

by Charles L. Briggs, Daniel C Hallin, Daniel C. Hallin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032457740
• ISBN13: 9781032457741
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 360 Pages