Charles L. Briggs is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at UC Berkeley. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. His work combines linguistic and medical anthropology with socio-cultural anthropology and folkloristics.

Daniel C. Hallin is Distinguished Professor of Communication, Emeritus, at the University of California, San Diego, and is a Fellow of the International Communication Association. His work concerns journalism, political communication, and the comparative analysis of media systems.

Introduction

Part I - Toward a Framework for Studying Biomediatization

Chapter 1 - Biocommunicability: Cultural Models of Knowledge about Health

Chapter 2 - The Daily Work of Biomediatization

Chapter 3 - What Does this Mean "For the Rest of Us?": Frames, Voices, and the Journalistic Mediation of Health and Medicine

Part II - Biomediatization Up Close: Four Case Studies

Chapter 4 - Finding the "Buzz," Patrolling the Boundaries: Reporting Pharma and Biotech

Chapter 5 - "You Have to Hit It Hard, Hit It Early": Biomediatizing the 2009 H1N1 Epidemic

Chapter 6 - "We're All in this Together"?: Biomediatization of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Chapter 7 - "We Have to Put that Four-Letter Word, 'Race,' on the Table": Voicing and Silencing Race and Ethnicity in News Coverage of Health

Chapter 8 - Conclusion