Transcending the medical/media opposition in research on news coverage of health and medicine

Health and medicine are major topics of news coverage, but research on health and medical reporting has remained mainly confined to specialist subfields, with less impact on broader academic fields, including journalism studies, than would seem warranted by its importance. This article argues that a...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Media, culture & society culture & society, 2015-01, Vol.37 (1), p.85-100
Main Authors: Hallin, Daniel C, Briggs, Charles L
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alternative Approaches
Development
General Public
Health
Health Research
Journalism
Knowledge
Literature
Media coverage
Medical sociology
Medicine
Methodology (Data Collection)
News
News Coverage
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
cited_by cdi_FETCH-LOGICAL-c417t-8c520ce396500791661a176b9d2b26cc79f5b3c42cdaa52c9ae936ae775121a53
cites cdi_FETCH-LOGICAL-c417t-8c520ce396500791661a176b9d2b26cc79f5b3c42cdaa52c9ae936ae775121a53
container_end_page 100
container_issue 1
container_start_page 85
container_title Media, culture & society
container_volume 37
creator Hallin, Daniel C
Briggs, Charles L
description Health and medicine are major topics of news coverage, but research on health and medical reporting has remained mainly confined to specialist subfields, with less impact on broader academic fields, including journalism studies, than would seem warranted by its importance. This article argues that assumptions implicit in much of this literature have limited the development of a wider tradition of research on health journalism. We point particularly to what we call the linear-reflectionist perspective, which sees health journalism as an often-flawed mechanism for transmitting pre-existing medical knowledge to the mass public. We propose an alternative framework that seeks to illuminate the complexity and importance of this field of study.
doi_str_mv 10.1177/0163443714549090
format article
fullrecord <record><control><sourceid>proquest_cross</sourceid><recordid>TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1692289875</recordid><sourceformat>XML</sourceformat><sourcesystem>PC</sourcesystem><sage_id>10.1177_0163443714549090</sage_id><sourcerecordid>1652369056</sourcerecordid><originalsourceid>FETCH-LOGICAL-c417t-8c520ce396500791661a176b9d2b26cc79f5b3c42cdaa52c9ae936ae775121a53</originalsourceid><addsrcrecordid>eNqNkc1LxDAQxYMouK7ePQa8eKmb7zRHWfwCwct6lJJNp9su3aQmXcX_3pZ6kAXB02OY33sw8xC6pOSGUq0XhCouBNdUSGGIIUdoRoUiGVdaHqPZuM7G_Sk6S2lLCGGC8Rl6W0XrkwNfNn6D-xrwDsrG2XYxqsWh60Jq-iZ43HgcIYGNrsbD6OEzYRc-INoN4FDhGmzb19j6cspoPJyjk8q2CS5-dI5e7-9Wy8fs-eXhaXn7nDlBdZ_lTjLigBslCdGGKkUt1WptSrZmyjltKrnmTjBXWiuZMxYMVxa0lpRRK_kcXU-5XQzve0h9sWuGo9rWegj7VFBlGMtNrv-DSsaVIVIN6NUBug376IdDBkoooXMl-UCRiXIxpBShKrrY7Gz8KigpxmqKw2oGSzZZ0vC6X6F_8d8z_YxK</addsrcrecordid><sourcetype>Aggregation Database</sourcetype><iscdi>true</iscdi><recordtype>article</recordtype><pqid>1646478653</pqid></control><display><type>article</type><title>Transcending the medical/media opposition in research on news coverage of health and medicine</title><source>International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)</source><source>Humanities Index</source><source>Sage Journals Online</source><source>Sociological Abstracts</source><creator>Hallin, Daniel C ; Briggs, Charles L</creator><creatorcontrib>Hallin, Daniel C ; Briggs, Charles L</creatorcontrib><description>Health and medicine are major topics of news coverage, but research on health and medical reporting has remained mainly confined to specialist subfields, with less impact on broader academic fields, including journalism studies, than would seem warranted by its importance. This article argues that assumptions implicit in much of this literature have limited the development of a wider tradition of research on health journalism. We point particularly to what we call the linear-reflectionist perspective, which sees health journalism as an often-flawed mechanism for transmitting pre-existing medical knowledge to the mass public. We propose an alternative framework that seeks to illuminate the complexity and importance of this field of study.</description><identifier>ISSN: 0163-4437</identifier><identifier>EISSN: 1460-3675</identifier><identifier>DOI: 10.1177/0163443714549090</identifier><identifier>CODEN: MCSOEC</identifier><language>eng</language><publisher>London, England: SAGE Publications</publisher><subject>Alternative Approaches ; Development ; General Public ; Health ; Health Research ; Journalism ; Knowledge ; Literature ; Media coverage ; Medical sociology ; Medicine ; Methodology (Data Collection) ; News ; News Coverage</subject><ispartof>Media, culture &amp; society, 2015-01, Vol.37 (1), p.85-100</ispartof><rights>The Author(s) 2014</rights><rights>Copyright Sage Publications Ltd. Jan 2015</rights><lds50>peer_reviewed</lds50><oa>free_for_read</oa><woscitedreferencessubscribed>false</woscitedreferencessubscribed><citedby>FETCH-LOGICAL-c417t-8c520ce396500791661a176b9d2b26cc79f5b3c42cdaa52c9ae936ae775121a53</citedby><cites>FETCH-LOGICAL-c417t-8c520ce396500791661a176b9d2b26cc79f5b3c42cdaa52c9ae936ae775121a53</cites></display><links><openurl>$$Topenurl_article</openurl><openurlfulltext>$$Topenurlfull_article</openurlfulltext><thumbnail>$$Tsyndetics_thumb_exl</thumbnail><link.rule.ids>314,780,784,27924,27925,33223,33224,33774,33775,33849,79364</link.rule.ids></links><search><creatorcontrib>Hallin, Daniel C</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Briggs, Charles L</creatorcontrib><title>Transcending the medical/media opposition in research on news coverage of health and medicine</title><title>Media, culture &amp; society</title><description>Health and medicine are major topics of news coverage, but research on health and medical reporting has remained mainly confined to specialist subfields, with less impact on broader academic fields, including journalism studies, than would seem warranted by its importance. This article argues that assumptions implicit in much of this literature have limited the development of a wider tradition of research on health journalism. We point particularly to what we call the linear-reflectionist perspective, which sees health journalism as an often-flawed mechanism for transmitting pre-existing medical knowledge to the mass public. We propose an alternative framework that seeks to illuminate the complexity and importance of this field of study.</description><subject>Alternative Approaches</subject><subject>Development</subject><subject>General Public</subject><subject>Health</subject><subject>Health Research</subject><subject>Journalism</subject><subject>Knowledge</subject><subject>Literature</subject><subject>Media coverage</subject><subject>Medical sociology</subject><subject>Medicine</subject><subject>Methodology (Data Collection)</subject><subject>News</subject><subject>News Coverage</subject><issn>0163-4437</issn><issn>1460-3675</issn><fulltext>true</fulltext><rsrctype>article</rsrctype><creationdate>2015</creationdate><recordtype>article</recordtype><sourceid>8BJ</sourceid><sourceid>BHHNA</sourceid><sourceid>C18</sourceid><recordid>eNqNkc1LxDAQxYMouK7ePQa8eKmb7zRHWfwCwct6lJJNp9su3aQmXcX_3pZ6kAXB02OY33sw8xC6pOSGUq0XhCouBNdUSGGIIUdoRoUiGVdaHqPZuM7G_Sk6S2lLCGGC8Rl6W0XrkwNfNn6D-xrwDsrG2XYxqsWh60Jq-iZ43HgcIYGNrsbD6OEzYRc-INoN4FDhGmzb19j6cspoPJyjk8q2CS5-dI5e7-9Wy8fs-eXhaXn7nDlBdZ_lTjLigBslCdGGKkUt1WptSrZmyjltKrnmTjBXWiuZMxYMVxa0lpRRK_kcXU-5XQzve0h9sWuGo9rWegj7VFBlGMtNrv-DSsaVIVIN6NUBug376IdDBkoooXMl-UCRiXIxpBShKrrY7Gz8KigpxmqKw2oGSzZZ0vC6X6F_8d8z_YxK</recordid><startdate>20150101</startdate><enddate>20150101</enddate><creator>Hallin, Daniel C</creator><creator>Briggs, Charles L</creator><general>SAGE Publications</general><general>Sage Publications Ltd</general><scope>AAYXX</scope><scope>CITATION</scope><scope>7U4</scope><scope>8BJ</scope><scope>BHHNA</scope><scope>C18</scope><scope>DWI</scope><scope>FQK</scope><scope>JBE</scope><scope>WZK</scope></search><sort><creationdate>20150101</creationdate><title>Transcending the medical/media opposition in research on news coverage of health and medicine</title><author>Hallin, Daniel C ; Briggs, Charles L</author></sort><facets><frbrtype>5</frbrtype><frbrgroupid>cdi_FETCH-LOGICAL-c417t-8c520ce396500791661a176b9d2b26cc79f5b3c42cdaa52c9ae936ae775121a53</frbrgroupid><rsrctype>articles</rsrctype><prefilter>articles</prefilter><language>eng</language><creationdate>2015</creationdate><topic>Alternative Approaches</topic><topic>Development</topic><topic>General Public</topic><topic>Health</topic><topic>Health Research</topic><topic>Journalism</topic><topic>Knowledge</topic><topic>Literature</topic><topic>Media coverage</topic><topic>Medical sociology</topic><topic>Medicine</topic><topic>Methodology (Data Collection)</topic><topic>News</topic><topic>News Coverage</topic><toplevel>peer_reviewed</toplevel><toplevel>online_resources</toplevel><creatorcontrib>Hallin, Daniel C</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Briggs, Charles L</creatorcontrib><collection>CrossRef</collection><collection>Sociological Abstracts (pre-2017)</collection><collection>International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)</collection><collection>Sociological Abstracts</collection><collection>Humanities Index</collection><collection>Sociological Abstracts</collection><collection>International Bibliography of the Social Sciences</collection><collection>International Bibliography of the Social Sciences</collection><collection>Sociological Abstracts (Ovid)</collection><jtitle>Media, culture &amp; society</jtitle></facets><delivery><delcategory>Remote Search Resource</delcategory><fulltext>fulltext</fulltext></delivery><addata><au>Hallin, Daniel C</au><au>Briggs, Charles L</au><format>journal</format><genre>article</genre><ristype>JOUR</ristype><atitle>Transcending the medical/media opposition in research on news coverage of health and medicine</atitle><jtitle>Media, culture &amp; society</jtitle><date>2015-01-01</date><risdate>2015</risdate><volume>37</volume><issue>1</issue><spage>85</spage><epage>100</epage><pages>85-100</pages><issn>0163-4437</issn><eissn>1460-3675</eissn><coden>MCSOEC</coden><abstract>Health and medicine are major topics of news coverage, but research on health and medical reporting has remained mainly confined to specialist subfields, with less impact on broader academic fields, including journalism studies, than would seem warranted by its importance. This article argues that assumptions implicit in much of this literature have limited the development of a wider tradition of research on health journalism. We point particularly to what we call the linear-reflectionist perspective, which sees health journalism as an often-flawed mechanism for transmitting pre-existing medical knowledge to the mass public. We propose an alternative framework that seeks to illuminate the complexity and importance of this field of study.</abstract><cop>London, England</cop><pub>SAGE Publications</pub><doi>10.1177/0163443714549090</doi><tpages>16</tpages><oa>free_for_read</oa></addata></record>
fulltext fulltext
identifier ISSN: 0163-4437
ispartof Media, culture & society, 2015-01, Vol.37 (1), p.85-100
issn 0163-4437
1460-3675
language eng
recordid cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1692289875
source International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS); Humanities Index; Sage Journals Online; Sociological Abstracts
subjects Alternative Approaches
Development
General Public
Health
Health Research
Journalism
Knowledge
Literature
Media coverage
Medical sociology
Medicine
Methodology (Data Collection)
News
News Coverage
title Transcending the medical/media opposition in research on news coverage of health and medicine
url http://sfxeu10.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/loughborough?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&ctx_tim=2025-01-04T19%3A42%3A41IST&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_ctx_fmt=infofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rfr_id=info:sid/primo.exlibrisgroup.com:primo3-Article-proquest_cross&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Transcending%20the%20medical/media%20opposition%20in%20research%20on%20news%20coverage%20of%20health%20and%20medicine&rft.jtitle=Media,%20culture%20&%20society&rft.au=Hallin,%20Daniel%20C&rft.date=2015-01-01&rft.volume=37&rft.issue=1&rft.spage=85&rft.epage=100&rft.pages=85-100&rft.issn=0163-4437&rft.eissn=1460-3675&rft.coden=MCSOEC&rft_id=info:doi/10.1177/0163443714549090&rft_dat=%3Cproquest_cross%3E1652369056%3C/proquest_cross%3E%3Cgrp_id%3Ecdi_FETCH-LOGICAL-c417t-8c520ce396500791661a176b9d2b26cc79f5b3c42cdaa52c9ae936ae775121a53%3C/grp_id%3E%3Coa%3E%3C/oa%3E%3Curl%3E%3C/url%3E&rft_id=info:oai/&rft_pqid=1646478653&rft_id=info:pmid/&rft_sage_id=10.1177_0163443714549090&rfr_iscdi=true