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Foss, Katherine A.

 
9781625345288: Constructing the Outbreak: Epidemics in Media & Collective Memory
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ISBN 10: 1625345283 ISBN 13: 9781625345288
Casa editrice: Univ of Massachusetts Pr, 2020

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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.

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KATHERINE A. FOSS is professor of journalism and strategic media at Middle Tennessee State University.


KATHERINE A. FOSS is professor of journalism and strategic media at Middle Tennessee State University.

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Univ of Massachusetts Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2020
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1625345283
ISBN 13 
9781625345288
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Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
275
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ISBN 10:  1625345275 ISBN 13:  9781625345271
Casa editrice: Univ of Massachusetts Pr, 2020
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