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Making Health Public
How News Coverage Is Remaking Media, Medicine, and Contemporary Life
Vorbestellbar | Lieferzeit: Vorbestellbar - Erscheint laut Verlag im/am 13.08.2024. I
Erstverkaufstag: 13.08.2024
Artikel-Nr:
9781032457741
Veröffentl:
2024
Erscheinungsdatum:
13.08.2024
Seiten:
360
Autor:
Charles L. Briggs
Format:
234x156x0 mm
Sprache:
Deutsch
Beschreibung:
Charles L. Briggs is a 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.
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.
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