Health and the Media

<p> 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.</p><p> 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.</p>