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

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Charles L. Briggs (University of California-Berkeley, USA) Daniel C. Hallin (University of California-San Diego, USA)

Making Health Public

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

Charles L. Briggs (University of California-Berkeley, USA), Daniel C. Hallin (University of California-San Diego, USA)

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Routledge
13 August 2024

Sociolinguistics; Media studies; Social & cultural anthropology; Psychological theory & schools of thought; Medicine: general issues

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.

By: Charles L. Briggs (University of California-Berkeley USA), Daniel C. Hallin (University of California-San Diego, USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032457734
ISBN 10: 1032457732
Pages: 290
Publication Date: 13 August 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

"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"

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.

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

"“This fresh, vivid, and surprising book will change how you think about the massive circulation of news about health and disease. Drawing on extensive knowledge and research, Briggs and Hallin show how the tight suturing of biomedicine and the media powerfully affects our culture, our politics, and our identities.” Steven Epstein, Northwestern University, USA ""This new edition of Making Health Public further confirms its originality and unique contributions. Like the rest of the book, the two new chapters bring up important insights for the study of questions at the intersection of public health, journalism studies, and political communication."" Silvio R. Waisbord, George Washington University, USA “This fresh, vivid, and surprising book will change how you think about the massive circulation of news about health and disease. Drawing on extensive knowledge and research, Briggs and Hallin show how the tight suturing of biomedicine and the media powerfully affects our culture, our politics, and our identities.” Steven Epstein, Northwestern University, USA ""This new edition of Making Health Public further confirms its originality and unique contributions. Like the rest of the book, the two new chapters bring up important insights for the study of questions at the intersection of public health, journalism studies, and political communication."" Silvio R. Waisbord, George Washington University, USA"