Representations of mad cow disease
Representations of mad cow disease
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DOI：
10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.06.001
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发表时间：
2006-01-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Washer, P
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作者：
Washer, P
本文研究了英国报纸上关于牛海绵状脑病 (BSE) 及其人类衍生变种克雅氏病 (vCJD) 的报道。对 1986 年至 1996 年期间报纸报道的三个“快照”进行了采样和分析，重点关注该疾病的描述在这 10 年期间如何演变。社会表征理论用于阐明报纸报道中如何概念化这种新的疾病威胁以及如何向英国公众解释。本文探讨了哪些人或哪些事物可能面临这种新疾病的风险，以及某些个人或群体是否对这些疾病的假定起源、人类中 vCJD 的出现及其传播负有责任。 (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. 保留所有权利。
This paper examines the reporting of the story of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and its human derivative variant Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease (vCJD) in the British newspapers. Three 'snapshots' of newspaper coverage are sampled and analysed between the period 1986 and 1996 focusing on how representations of the disease evolved over the 10-year period. Social representations theory is used to elucidate how this new disease threat was conceptualised in the newspaper reporting and how it was explained to the UK public. This paper examines who or what was said to be at risk from the new disease, and whether some individuals or groups held to blame for the diseases' putative origins, the appearance of vCJD in human beings, and its spread. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.