Exploring the interplay between media and medicine, this book introduces the concept of 'biomediatization' to illustrate how health knowledge is collaboratively shaped across various platforms and experts. Through a blend of media content analysis and ethnographic research, it delves into the creation and dissemination of health news, involving insights from journalists, clinicians, and audiences. This work offers students and scholars a profound understanding of the intricate processes behind health news and its cultural implications.
Offers a sweeping survey of Europe in the later Middle Ages, examining a
period of huge crisis, conflict and religious change. This title takes a
thematic approach to the period 1300- 1520, covering topics ranging from the
Black Death and the Reformation to the Peasant's Revolt and the Renaissance.
"Climate Changed is an honest and humane account about the rapid downsizing of the world's natural resources and the consequences this has for millions of people who, year after year, are displaced from their home countries because of politically-instigated and economically-justified war and conflict. Based on interviews with 110 refugees who arrived into Europe from 2015 to 2018 and observations of refugee camps, border crossings, inner-city slums, social housing projects, NGO and related refugee associations, it offers a moving insight into the refugee experience of leaving home, crossing borders and settling in Europe and sets this against the geo-political and commercial enterprise that dismantled their countries in the international chase for wilting quantities of the world's natural resources. Yet at every point of their journey to their new lives and in the resettlement process, the refugees are on the end of more perpetual victimisation and exploitation as there is always money to be made from them. Even if their labour is in demand, all this is further exacerbated by a European social climate of intolerance and stigma which jeopardises integration and counters their wellbeing and safety. The climate has changed. Students, lecturers and professors and other similar academic workers, policymakers, various practitioners, and voluntary workers within the sector of refugee frontlines as well as aid workers, town planners and welfare support staff would find relevance in this book"
This book asks whether the decision to lock down the world was justified in
proportion to the potential harms and risks generated by the Covid-19 virus.
Using vivid testimonies and images, Briggs and Monge document the stories and
situations of the people who live in Valdemingomez , placing them in a
political, economic and social context.
This gripping book narrates the efforts to identify a strange disease that
killed thirty-eight people in a Venezuelan rainforest between 2007 and 2008
and sketches out systematic health inequities regarding the rights to produce
and circulate knowledge about health throughout indigenous communities.
