Representations of SARS in the British newspapers.
Representations of SARS in the British newspapers.
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DOI：
10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.03.038
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2004-12
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Washer P
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Washer P
2003年春，全球新闻媒体对一种新的传染病-严重急性呼吸系统综合症（SARS）-产生了极大的兴趣。本研究探讨了这种新的疾病的威胁是如何在英国的报纸上描绘，使用社会表征理论，特别是现有的工作对艾滋病毒/艾滋病和埃博拉病毒的社会表征来分析流行病的含义。它调查了SARS被描述为对英国公众的危险威胁的方式，同时几乎立即使用“其他”机制来“遏制”这种威胁：SARS被认为不太可能影响英国读者，因为中国人与“我们”如此不同;所以“其他”。从这个意义上说，尽管SARS恐慌在现代全球新闻媒体上的传播速度惊人，但它与历史上其他传染病流行病的含义产生了共鸣。然而，这项研究也强调了SARS与早期流行病相比在社会表征方面的一些差异。特别是，这项研究考察了过去30年左右的“新兴和重新出现的传染病”现象，并表明这些现象对曾经广泛认为西方生物医学可以“征服”传染病的信念产生了影响。
In the Spring of 2003, there was a huge interest in the global news media following the emergence of a new infectious disease: severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). This study examines how this novel disease threat was depicted in the UK newspapers, using social representations theory and in particular existing work on social representations of HIV/AIDS and Ebola to analyse the meanings of the epidemic. It investigates the way that SARS was presented as a dangerous threat to the UK public, whilst almost immediately the threat was said to be ‘contained’ using the mechanism of ‘othering’: SARS was said to be unlikely to personally affect the UK reader because the Chinese were so different to ‘us’; so ‘other’. In this sense, the SARS scare, despite the remarkable speed with which it was played out in the modern global news media, resonates with the meanings attributed to other epidemics of infectious diseases throughout history. Yet this study also highlights a number of differences in the social representations of SARS compared with earlier epidemics. In particular, this study examines the phenomena of ‘emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases’ over the past 30 or so years and suggests that these have impacted on the faith once widely held that Western biomedicine could ‘conquer’ infectious disease.
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