Transcending the medical/media opposition in research on news coverage of health and medicine

Media, Culture and Society

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 85-100

  Hallin, Daniel C ^a   Briggs, Charles L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

health; health communication; health news; journalism; science and technology studies; sociology of medicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920971314     PISSN: 01634437     EISSN: 14603675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163443714549090     Document Type: Article

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