Making Health Public

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.

“This fresh, vivid, and surprising book will change how you think about the massive circulation of news about health and disease. Drawing on extensive knowledge and research, Briggs and Hallin show how the tight suturing of biomedicine and the media powerfully affects our culture, our politics, and our identities.”Steven Epstein, Northwestern University, USA"This new edition of Making Health Public further confirms its originality and unique contributions. Like the rest of the book, the two new chapters bring up important insights for the study of questions at the intersection of public health, journalism studies, and political communication."Silvio R. Waisbord, George Washington University, USA

• IntroductionPart I – Toward a Framework for Studying BiomediatizationChapter 1 – Biocommunicability: Cultural Models of Knowledge about HealthChapter 2 – The Daily Work of BiomediatizationChapter 3 – What Does this Mean “For the Rest of Us?”: Frames, Voices, and the Journalistic Mediation of Health and MedicinePart II – Biomediatization Up Close: Four Case StudiesChapter 4 – Finding the “Buzz,” Patrolling the Boundaries: Reporting Pharma and BiotechChapter 5 – “You Have to Hit It Hard, Hit It Early”: Biomediatizing the 2009 H1N1 EpidemicChapter 6 – "We're All in this Together"?: Biomediatization of the COVID-19 PandemicChapter 7 – “We Have to Put that Four-Letter Word, ‘Race,’ on the Table”: Voicing and Silencing Race and Ethnicity in News Coverage of HealthChapter 8 – Conclusion