Healthy depictions? Depicting adoption and adoption news events on broadcast news

Journal of Health Communication

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 56-69

  Kline, Susan L ^a   Chatterjee, Karishma ^b   Karel, Amanda I ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^c FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; ANECDOTES AS TOPIC; BIBLIOMETRICS; CHILD; DISABLED CHILDREN; FAMILY; FRAUD; HUMANS; JOURNALISM; METAPHOR; PARENTS; TELEVISION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 61649113986     PISSN: 10810730     EISSN: 10870415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10810730802592254     Document Type: Article

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