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Tuberculosis
Research from University of Auckland broadens understanding of tuberculosis
April 1st, 2008
"This paper critically examines the ways that tuberculosis (TB) has been represented in the print media in New Zealand over recent years (2002-2004). Our broad contention is that, notwithstanding its biomedical reality, TB is socially constructed by, and through, human experience," researchers in Auckland, New Zealand report. "Further, public health practitioners depend, to a large extent, on the media to alert the public to threats of disease and opportunities for protection. However, the messages conveyed are sometimes neither helpful nor accurate. In our analysis of TB coverage in three major daily newspapers in New Zealand, we enumerate and classify references to...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-04-01)
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