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Making health public : (Record no. 16953)

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INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9781032457734
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9781032457741
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number RA4405. M35 2025
MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Briggs, Charles L.,
TITLE STATEMENT
Title Making health public :
Remainder of title how news coverage is remaking media, medicine, and contemporary life /
Statement of responsibility, etc Charles L. Briggs and Daniel C. Hallin.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement Second edition.
Copyright Date
Place of publication Abingdon, Oxon ;
-- New York, NY :
Name of publisher Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group,
Year of publication or production 2025.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages xx, 290 pages :
Other physical details illustrations ;
FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Introduction -- Biocommunicability : cultural models of knowledge about health -- The daily work of biomediatization -- What does this mean "for the rest of us?" : frames, voices, and the journalistic mediation of health and medicine -- Finding the "buzz," patrolling the boundaries : reporting pharma and biotech -- "You have to hit it hard, hit it early" : biomediatizing the 2009 H1N1 epidemic -- "We're all in this together"? : biomediatization of the COVID 19 pandemic -- "We have to put that four-letter word, 'race,' on the table" : voicing and silencing race and ethnicity in news coverage of health -- Conclusion.
SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "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 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 pandemic. The final case study examines the treatment of race and racism in health news, looking at the ways it interacts with cultural constructions 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"--
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Mass media in health education.
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Health promotion.
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Medicine
ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Hallin, Daniel C.,
ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme Library of Congress Classification
Koha item type Books
Holdings
Permanent Location Current Location Date acquired Full call number Accession Number Koha item type
Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). 10/17/2025 RA4405 .M35 2025 0199161 Books
Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). 10/17/2025 RA4405 .M35 2025 0199162 Books

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