Curing Television's Ills: The Portrayal of Health Care

1985-12-01articleJournal of Communication73 citationsgreen

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Media Influence and Health Media Studies and Communication Media, Gender, and Advertising

Abstract

Content analysis of TV programming across day- and night-time genres shows drugs and machines as the ubiquitous modes of healing, with doctors diagnosing incorrectly only three percent of the time.

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