Public Bioethics: An Intermediary Between Public Health and the Media - Tapa blanda

A tangible connection exists between bioethics, public health, and the print news media. The print news media utilize bioethicists as "framers" of issues for the public, because bioethicists clarify complex public health issues for the media in easy to understand, meaningful ways. However, multiple bioethicists have disclosed, within professional journals, that they are being misrepresented, underrepresented, and/or represented in a negative way by the print media. Because of this discontent, bioethicists are considering whether or not to continue their professional interaction with the print news media. Within this book is a qualitative content analysis which looks at eight national news sources in the United States of America. Four of the sources are national newspapers, and the remaining four are weekly news magazines. Due in fact to the aforementioned bioethicist discontent, this analysis endeavored to uncover how the news media presents bioethicists to their reader base.

Recently I completed a Master of Public Health degree at the University of Nevada, Reno. Prior to seeking an advanced degree, my focus was in dental hygiene, which I currently practice. I desire to continue my education at the doctoral level, where I will focus on health-ethics connections.