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This book centers on the role of media in shaping public perceptions of breastfeeding. Drawing from magazines, doctors’ office materials, parenting books, television, websites, and other media outlets, Katherine A. Foss explores how historical and contemporary media often undermine breastfeeding efforts with formula marketing and narrow portrayals of nursing women and their experiences. Foss argues that the media’s messages play an integral role in setting the standard of public knowledge and attitudes toward breastfeeding, as she traces shifting public perceptions of breastfeeding and their corresponding media constructions from the development of commercial formula through contemporary times. This analysis demonstrates how attributions of blame have negatively impacted public health approaches to breastfeeding, thus confronting the misperception that breastfeeding, and the failure to breastfeed, rests solely on the responsibility of an individual mother.
Culture --- Communication. --- Cultural and Media Studies. --- Media and Communication. --- Journalism and Broadcasting. --- Popular Culture. --- Culture and Gender. --- Digital/New Media. --- Study and teaching. --- Breastfeeding --- Mass media in breastfeeding promotion. --- Social aspects. --- Mass media in breast feeding promotion --- Breast feeding --- Nursing (Breastfeeding) --- Suckling --- Breastfeeding promotion --- Infants --- Lactation --- Wet nurses --- Nutrition --- Journalism. --- Culture. --- Gender. --- Digital media. --- Popular Culture . --- Electronic media --- New media (Digital media) --- Mass media --- Digital communications --- Online journalism --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- Publicity --- Fake news --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Social aspects --- Popular culture.
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When an epidemic strikes, media outlets are central to how an outbreak is framed and understood. While reporters construct stories intended to inform the public and convey essential information from doctors and politicians, news narratives also serve as historical records, capturing sentiments, responses, and fears throughout the course of the epidemic. This book demonstrates how news reporting on epidemics communicates more than just information about pathogens; rather, prejudices, political agendas, religious beliefs, and theories of disease also shape the message. Analyzing seven epidemics spanning more than two hundred years - from Boston's smallpox epidemic and Philadelphia's yellow fever epidemic in the eighteenth century to outbreaks of diphtheria, influenza, and typhoid in the early twentieth century - the author discusses how shifts in journalism and medicine influenced the coverage, preservation, and fictionalization of different disease outbreaks. Each case study highlights facets of this interplay, delving into topics such as colonization, tourism, war, and politics. Through this investigation into what has been preserved and forgotten in the collective memory of disease, the author sheds light on current health care debates, like vaccine hesitancy.
EPIDEMICS--PRESS COVERAGE--USA --- JOURNALISM--SOCIAL ASPECTS--USA --- Epidemiology --- Mass communications --- World history
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This book centers on the role of media in shaping public perceptions of breastfeeding. Drawing from magazines, doctors’ office materials, parenting books, television, websites, and other media outlets, Katherine A. Foss explores how historical and contemporary media often undermine breastfeeding efforts with formula marketing and narrow portrayals of nursing women and their experiences. Foss argues that the media’s messages play an integral role in setting the standard of public knowledge and attitudes toward breastfeeding, as she traces shifting public perceptions of breastfeeding and their corresponding media constructions from the development of commercial formula through contemporary times. This analysis demonstrates how attributions of blame have negatively impacted public health approaches to breastfeeding, thus confronting the misperception that breastfeeding, and the failure to breastfeed, rests solely on the responsibility of an individual mother.
Journalism --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Sociology of culture --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Mass communications --- populaire cultuur --- sociale media --- communicatie --- cultuur --- emancipatie --- journalisten --- gender
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Prisons in mass media. --- Reformatories for women. --- Prisoners
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