Patents, Pills, and the Press: The Rise and Fall of the Global HIV/AIDS Medicines Crisis in the News

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Thomas Owen

Patents, Pills, and the Press

The Rise and Fall of the Global HIV/AIDS Medicines Crisis in the News

Thomas Owen

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Peter Lang Publishing Inc
30 May 2015

Journalistic style guides; Political science & theory; Political structure & processes; Medicine: general issues

Series: Global Crises and the Media

HIV/AIDS is a global health crisis of unprecedented proportions. Afflicting millions worldwide, its social, political, economic, and ethical dimensions have rendered explicit the vast inequalities of our «negatively globalized planet». Since the late 1990s, a major feature of the crisis has been the dispute over intellectual property protection and medicines access.

In this book, Thomas Owen examines the mediatization of this dispute. Weaving together contemporary media theory and interdisciplinary research with computer-assisted news analysis and interviews with journalists and civil society campaigners, the book illuminates the intersecting constitutive relationships between global crises, global governance, and global media. In a context of changing media technologies, logics, and practices, this book observes where the mediatized conflict surrounding global medicines access has at times consolidated elite political economic power, and at other times provided civil society campaigners their greatest opportunities for global social change.

With an interdisciplinary approach, this book is suitable for courses on global media communication and global journalism, as well as advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses in public health communication, political communication, social movement studies, and international relations.

By: Thomas Owen
Imprint: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Volume: 15
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9781433123504
ISBN 10: 1433123509
Series: Global Crises and the Media
Pages: 217
Publication Date: 30 May 2015
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Thomas Owen (PhD, Massey University) is Lecturer in Communication Studies at Auckland University of Technology. He is a recipient of the Loxley Award for peace research, and a Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellow. His work has appeared in The International Journal of Press/Politics, Critical Discourse Studies, and The International Journal of Communication.