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Making health public : how news coverage is remaking media, medicine, and contemporary life / Charles L. Briggs and Daniel C. Hallin

Author
Briggs, Charles L., 1953-
Published
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.
Physical Description
xvii, 239 pages ; 24 cm
Additional Creators
Hallin, Daniel C.

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Toward a framework for studying biomediatization -- 1.Biocommunicability: cultural models of knowledge about health -- 2.The daily work of biomediatization -- 3.What does this mean "for the rest of us?": frames, voices, and the journalistic mediation of health and medicine -- pt. II Biomediatization up close: three case studies -- 4."You have to hit it hard, hit it early": biomediatizing the 2009 H1N1 epidemic -- 5.Finding the "buzz," patrolling the boundaries: reporting pharma and biotech -- 6."We have to put that four-letter word, `race,' on the table": voicing and silencing race and ethnicity in news coverage of health.
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ISBN
9781138999879 hardcover ; alkaline paper
1138999873 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9781138999862 paperback ; alkaline paper
1138999865 paperback ; alkaline paper
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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