Patents, Pills, and the Press - The Rise and Fall of the Global HIV/AIDS Medicines Crisis in the News (Hardcover, New edition)

HIV/AIDS is a global health crisis of unprecedented proportions. Afflicting millions worldwide, its social, political, economic, and ethical dimensions have rendered explicit the vast inequalities of our "negatively globalized planet". Since the late 1990s, a major feature of the crisis has been the dispute over intellectual property protection and medicines access. In this book, Thomas Owen examines the mediatization of this dispute. Weaving together contemporary media theory and interdisciplinary research with computer-assisted news analysis and interviews with journalists and civil society campaigners, the book illuminates the intersecting constitutive relationships between global crises, global governance, and global media. In a context of changing media technologies, logics, and practices, this book observes where the mediatized conflict surrounding global medicines access has at times consolidated elite political economic power, and at other times provided civil society campaigners their greatest opportunities for global social change. With an interdisciplinary approach, this book is suitable for courses on global media communication and global journalism, as well as advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses in public health communication, political communication, social movement studies, and international relations.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Global Crises and the Media, 15
Release date:	May 2015
First published:	2015
Authors:	Thomas Owen
Dimensions:	230 x 155 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	217
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-2350-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Medicine > General issues > General Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Writing & editing guides > Journalistic style guides Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > General
LSN:	1-4331-2350-9
Barcode:	9781433123504

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!