Download or read book Health and the Media written by Valentina Marinescu and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-06-05 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing the relationship between medicine and the media from different perspectives, these new essays fill a gap in this emerging field, providing new information on approaches to health communication and important reevaluations of health literacy theories. The contributors discuss ideas and methodologies across a range of topics, including multifaceted health communication, media coverage of maternal health, the rhetoric of diagnosis in autoimmune illness, media representation of the sick in data-driven healthcare, and health news coverage in print media.