Exploring the mutual constitution of racializing and medicalizing discourses of immigrant tuberculosis in the Canadian press

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 911-920

  Reitmanova, Sylvia ^a   Gustafson, Diana L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

communication; discourse analysis; immigrants migrants; medicalization; racism; tuberculosis (TB)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MIGRATION; PERCEPTION; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLICATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RACE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

CANADA; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; NEWSPAPERS; POLITICS; PREJUDICE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 84861820497     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732312441087     Document Type: Article

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