Health and the Media

Essays on the Effects of Mass Communication

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Analyzing the relationship between medicine and the media from different perspectives, these new essays fill a gap in this emerging field, providing new information on approaches to health communication and important reevaluations of health literacy theories.The contributors discuss ideas and methodologies across a range of topics, including multifaceted health communication, media coverage of maternal health, the rhetoric of diagnosis in autoimmune illness, media representation of the sick in data-driven healthcare, and health news coverage in print media.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-06-09
Mått152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt358 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor260
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9781476663029

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Valentina Marinescu is a professor at the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work at Bucharest University in Bucharest, Romania. Her research interests lie in media and communication studies on which she has published several articles and book chapters. Bianca Mitu is a lecturer at the University of Huddersfield in the United Kingdom. Her research interests are in television studies, digital culture and media sociology.

Table of ContentsForeword—Mass Media, Health, Communication: Main Issues (Maria Marczewska-Rytko)Introduction—Media and Health: Contemporary Approaches (Valentina Marinescu and Bianca Mitu)Part One. Narratives of Health and IllnessMultifaceted Health Communication (Sinikka Torkkola)Narratives of Media Coverage of Maternal Health: Quest for New Dimensions (Alfred Okoth Akwala and Lynete Lusike Mukhongo)Autoimmune Illness and the Rhetoric of Differential Diagnosis: Loss, Suppression and Negation from Patient Narratives and Medical Histories (James A. Wren)Bridging the Medical Divide: Communication as a Metaphor in HIV Cases (Naga Mallika Gudipaty)Part Two. Anthropology of Communicating Health and IllnessThe Sick Person Remediated in Data-Driven Health Care (Suneel Jethani)Extraterrestrial Pregnancies and Nasal Implants: A Mythologization of Biopower? (Marika Moisseeff)Public Health Care in Private Hospitals: A Critical Analysis of the Aarogyasri Health Insurance Scheme (Sajit M. Mathews and Ravindra Kumar Vemula)Part Three. Media Coverage of Health and IllnessHealth News Coverage in Print Media: Is It Healthy? (Sriram Arulchelvan)Media Coverage of Health and Illness in Romania (Valentina Marinescu)Population Health in Interwar Romania Reflected in the Sociological School of Bucharest’s Research and Publications (Bogdan Bucur)Conclusion—Media and Health, Challenges and Opportunities (Valentina Marinescu and Bianca Mitu)About the ContributorsIndex