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0318/2016 - Health as science and the biological body as an artifact: The case of brazil’s national tv news program jornal nacional.
A saúde como ciência e o corpo biológico como artefato: O caso do jornal nacional.

Author:

• Eduardo Caron - Caron,E. - São Paulo, SP - Universidade de Sao Paulo Faculdade de Saude Publica, Saúde Pública - <eduardo.caron@usp.br>

Co-author(s):

• Fernando Lefevre - Lefevre, F - São Paulo, São Paulo - Faculdade de Saúde Pública da USP, Pratica de Saúde Pública - <flefevre@usp.br>
• Aurea Maria Zöllner Ianni - Ianni, A. M. Z. - São Paulo, - Faculdade de Saúde Pública USP, Prática de Saúde Pública - <aureanni@usp.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1366-8651

Thematic Area:

Informação e Comunicação em Saúde

Abstract:

This article presents the results of research on the coverage of health, science and technology in national TV news broadcasted by Brazil’s Jornal Nacional – Rede Globo de Televisão during the year of 2012. 246 news reports about health were analyzed and half of them refers scientific research, technological innovation and hospital assistance, performing a medical centered field of discourse. 82% of Science & Technology news reports advertise products to be provided in the market, showing the economic participation of these scientific researches. The article discusses two aspects in these news reports that characterizes the biological body as an artifact: the construction of a virtual and fragmented corporeity through the diffusion of inner images of the body; and the relevance of biotechnological issues which has opened the life processes to molecular manipulation and alteration. It’s been questioned the hybridization of culture and nature present in the biotechnological objects.

Keywords:

biotechnologymedicalizationmedia

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Caron,E., Lefevre, F, Ianni, A. M. Z.. Health as science and the biological body as an artifact: The case of brazil’s national tv news program jornal nacional.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2016/Jul). [Citado em 21/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/health-as-science-and-the-biological-body-as-an-artifact-the-case-of-brazils-national-tv-news-program-jornal-nacional/15743?id=15743



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