Health And The Media: Essays On The Effects Of Mass Communication

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.

• | Author: Valentina Marinescu|Bianca Mitu, Bianca Mitu
• | Publisher: McFarland
• | Publication Date: May 26, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 260 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Language Arts & Disciplines
• | ISBN-10: 1476663025
• | ISBN-13: 9781476663029