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This book examines the relationship between media and medicine,
considering the fundamental role of news coverage in constructing
wider cultural understandings of health and disease. The authors
advance the notion of 'biomediatization' and demonstrate how health
knowledge is co-produced through connections between dispersed
sites and forms of expertise. The chapters offer an innovative
combination of media content analysis and ethnographic data on the
production and circulation of health news, drawing on work with
journalists, clinicians, health officials, medical researchers,
marketers, and audiences. The volume provides students and scholars
with unique insight into the significance and complexity of what
health news does and how it is created.
Tell Me Why My Children Died tells the gripping story of indigenous
leaders' efforts to identify a strange disease that killed
thirty-two children and six young adults in a Venezuelan rain
forest between 2007 and 2008. In this pathbreaking book, Charles L.
Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs relay the nightmarish and difficult
experiences of doctors, patients, parents, local leaders, healers,
and epidemiologists; detail how journalists first created a smoke
screen, then projected the epidemic worldwide; discuss the Chavez
government's hesitant and sometimes ambivalent reactions; and
narrate the eventual diagnosis of bat-transmitted rabies. The book
provides a new framework for analyzing how the uneven distribution
of rights to produce and circulate knowledge about health are
wedded at the hip with health inequities. By recounting residents'
quest to learn why their children died and documenting their
creative approaches to democratizing health, the authors open up
new ways to address some of global health's most intractable
problems.
This book examines the relationship between media and medicine,
considering the fundamental role of news coverage in constructing
wider cultural understandings of health and disease. The authors
advance the notion of 'biomediatization' and demonstrate how health
knowledge is co-produced through connections between dispersed
sites and forms of expertise. The chapters offer an innovative
combination of media content analysis and ethnographic data on the
production and circulation of health news, drawing on work with
journalists, clinicians, health officials, medical researchers,
marketers, and audiences. The volume provides students and scholars
with unique insight into the significance and complexity of what
health news does and how it is created.
Tell Me Why My Children Died tells the gripping story of indigenous
leaders' efforts to identify a strange disease that killed
thirty-two children and six young adults in a Venezuelan rain
forest between 2007 and 2008. In this pathbreaking book, Charles L.
Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs relay the nightmarish and difficult
experiences of doctors, patients, parents, local leaders, healers,
and epidemiologists; detail how journalists first created a smoke
screen, then projected the epidemic worldwide; discuss the Chavez
government's hesitant and sometimes ambivalent reactions; and
narrate the eventual diagnosis of bat-transmitted rabies. The book
provides a new framework for analyzing how the uneven distribution
of rights to produce and circulate knowledge about health are
wedded at the hip with health inequities. By recounting residents'
quest to learn why their children died and documenting their
creative approaches to democratizing health, the authors open up
new ways to address some of global health's most intractable
problems.
This study asserts that conscious development of new ways of thinking about language had a crucial role in modern history, particularly the discovery of how differences between languages legitimated social inequalities. It claims that savages and ancients were judged alike because they used language similarly, in contrast to modern Europeans who used disciplined language in scientific, philosophical and legal projects.
Cholera, although it can kill an adult through dehydration in half
a day, is easily treated. Yet in 1992-93, some five hundred people
died from cholera in the Orinoco Delta of eastern Venezuela. In
some communities, a third of the adults died in a single night, as
anthropologist Charles Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs, a
Venezuelan public health physician, reveal in their frontline
report. Why, they ask in this moving and thought-provoking account,
did so many die near the end of the twentieth century from a
bacterial infection associated with the premodern past? It was
evident that the number of deaths resulted not only from
inadequacies in medical services but also from the failure of
public health officials to inform residents that cholera was likely
to arrive. Less evident were the ways that scientists, officials,
and politicians connected representations of infectious diseases
with images of social inequality. In Venezuela, cholera was
racialized as officials used anthropological notions of 'culture'
in deflecting blame away from their institutions and onto the
victims themselves. The disease, the space of the Orinoco Delta,
and the 'indigenous ethnic group' who suffered cholera all came to
seem somehow synonymous. One of the major threats to people's
health worldwide is this deadly cycle of passing the blame.
Carefully documenting how stigma, stories, and statistics circulate
across borders, this first-rate ethnography demonstrates that the
process undermines all the efforts of physicians and public health
officials and at the same time contributes catastrophically to
epidemics not only of cholera but also of tuberculosis, malaria,
AIDS, and other killers. The authors have harnessed their own
outrage over what took place during the epidemic and its aftermath
in order to make clear the political and human stakes involved in
the circulation of narratives, resources, and germs.
This appraisal reveals that interviewing techniques depend upon fundamental misapprehensions about the nature of the interview as a communicative event as well as the nature of the data that it produces.
Conflict plays a crucial role in social interactions, and
representations of conflict are an important aspect of language.
Stories and narratives involving everything from war to playground
disputes generate, sustain, mediate, and represent conflict at all
levels of social organization. Still, despite the vast amount of
research on conflict and narrative in a number of disciplines, no
one has yet examined how these play off of each other; in fact,
most studies treat narrative merely as a source of information
about conflict rather then as a part of conflict's process. The
contributors to this collection argue that language consists of
socially and politically situated practices that are differentially
distributed on the basis of gender, class, race, ethnicity, and
other categories. Each of them, writing from the perspective of
their own disciplines, challenges previous assumptions about
narrative and social conflict as they interpret a range of disputes
that emerge in a variety of settings. Taken in total, these essays
substantially further our theoretical and methodological
understanding of narrative and conflict and how they intersect.
Conflict plays a crucial role in social interactions, and
representations of conflict are an important aspect of language.
Stories and narratives involving everything from war to playground
disputes generate, sustain, mediate, and represent conflict at all
levels of social organization. Still, despite the vast amount of
research on conflict and narrative in a number of disciplines, no
one has yet examined how these play off of each other; in fact,
most studies treat narrative merely as a source of information
about conflict rather then as a part of conflict's process. The
contributors to this collection argue that language consists of
socially and politically situated practices that are differentially
distributed on the basis of gender, class, race, ethnicity, and
other categories. Each of them, writing from the perspective of
their own disciplines, challenges previous assumptions about
narrative and social conflict as they interpret a range of disputes
that emerge in a variety of settings. Taken in total, these essays
substantially further our theoretical and methodological
understanding of narrative and conflict and how they intersect.
This study asserts that conscious development of new ways of thinking about language had a crucial role in modern history, particularly the discovery of how differences between languages legitimated social inequalities. It claims that savages and ancients were judged alike because they used language similarly, in contrast to modern Europeans who used disciplined language in scientific, philosophical and legal projects.
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