Charles L. Briggs, Daniel C. Hallin

Gebundenes Buch

Making Health Public

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

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 634g
• ISBN-13: 9781032457734
• ISBN-10: 1032457732
• Artikelnr.: 70147772

Rezensionen

"Briggs and Hallin have crafted a well-written and engaging text that provides a useful framework for studying health and disease in the 21st century. This book has the potential to inspire anthropologists to take more seriously the role of media in the production and circulation of medical and lay knowledge about health and disease. Biomediatization is an especially valuable contribution to medical anthropology, and the concept could easily take a place alongside and re-shape understandings of many popular conceptual frameworks in medical anthropology such as biomedicalization, biocommunicability, embodiment, performativity/enactment, and pharmaceuticalization."

- William J. Robertson, Anthropology Book Forum (American Anthropological Association)

"Briggs and Hallin have crafted a well-written and engaging text that provides a useful framework for studying health and disease in the 21st century. This book has the potential to inspire anthropologists to take more seriously the role of media in the production and circulation of medical and lay knowledge about health and disease. Biomediatization is an especially valuable contribution to medical anthropology, and the concept could easily take a place alongside and re-shape understandings of many popular conceptual frameworks in medical anthropology such as biomedicalization, biocommunicability, embodiment, performativity/enactment, and pharmaceuticalization."

- William J. Robertson, Anthropology Book Forum (American Anthropological Association)