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Constructing the outbreak : epidemics in media and collective memory /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Epidemics in media: telling the story of disease
- Inoculating the speckled monster: The Boston Press in the 1721 Smallpox Epidemic
- Philadelphia 1793: Yellow Fever Shapes the Town and Nation
- To healthy seeker to stigmatized: the recognition of TB as Contagious
- Blaming the healthy carrier: typhoid cever and the Case of Mary Mallon
- "The kaiser laughs when you spread disease": Influenza and the "Great War" in Lawrence, Kansas
- Racing "The strangler": The Nome Diphtheria Outbreak of 1925
- Funding the "Polio Pledge": The March of Dimes and the forgotten epidemic of 1952
- Conclusion: who lives? who dies? who tells the story: concluding thoughts on media and epidemics.