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Medicine Anthropology Theory, Vol 5, Iss
2018 Volume 4
Abstract: The mass media fascination with mass death and mass disease has a long history. But what makes a disease communicable in our culture of media? In this think piece, I argue that the mass media has found in the idea of the next pandemic an ideal ... ...
Abstract | The mass media fascination with mass death and mass disease has a long history. But what makes a disease communicable in our culture of media? In this think piece, I argue that the mass media has found in the idea of the next pandemic an ideal opportunity to corroborate its own discursive problematic. |
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Keywords | seriality ; novelty ; mass media ; capitalism ; crisis ; catastrophe ; Anthropology ; GN1-890 ; Medicine (General) ; R5-920 |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 2018-09-01T00:00:00Z |
Publisher | University of Edinburgh Library |
Document type | Article ; Online |
Database | BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection) |
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