Name: Constructing the Outbreak: Epidemics in Media and Collective Memory (en Inglés)
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Author: Foss, Katherine A.
ISBN: 9781625345288

portada Constructing the Outbreak: Epidemics in Media and Collective Memory (en Inglés)

Constructing the Outbreak: Epidemics in Media and Collective Memory (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Katherine A. Foss

Editorial

University of Massachusetts Press

Año

2020

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

232

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.6x15.2x2.3 cm

Peso

0.41 kg.

ISBN13

9781625345288

N° edición

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Estudios sobre medios
Salud, enfermedad y adicción: aspectos sociales
Historia de américa

Constructing the Outbreak: Epidemics in Media and Collective Memory (en Inglés)

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Reseña del libro "Constructing the Outbreak: Epidemics in Media and Collective Memory (en Inglés)"

When an epidemic strikes, media outlets are central to how an outbreak is framed and understood. While reporters construct stories intended to inform the public and convey essential information from doctors and politicians, news narratives also serve as historical records, capturing sentiments, responses, and fears throughout the course of the epidemic. Constructing the Outbreak demonstrates how news reporting on epidemics communicates more than just information about pathogens; rather, prejudices, political agendas, religious beliefs, and theories of disease also shape the message. Analyzing seven epidemics spanning more than two hundred years--from Boston's smallpox epidemic and Philadelphia's yellow fever epidemic in the eighteenth century to outbreaks of diphtheria, influenza, and typhoid in the early twentieth century--Katherine A. Foss discusses how shifts in journalism and medicine influenced the coverage, preservation, and fictionalization of different disease outbreaks. Each case study highlights facets of this interplay, delving into topics such as colonization, tourism, war, and politics. Through this investigation into what has been preserved and forgotten in the collective memory of disease, Foss sheds light on current health care debates, like vaccine hesitancy.