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. 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.

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: 9781032457741
ISBN 10: 1032457740
Pages: 290
Publication Date: 13 August 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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"