scholarly journals A textual analysis of media framing of mass shootings: how characteristics surrounding mass shootings are framed in men's and women's magazines

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Haley M. Pitto
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Women's Magazines ◽  
Mass Shootings ◽  
The Core ◽  
Four Frames ◽  
Mass Shooting ◽  
Magazine Articles

The present research attempted to build upon mass shooting studies by analyzing how feature-length magazine articles focusing on these events frame the characteristics surrounding mass shootings in men's and women's health and lifestyle magazines. The researcher conducted a qualitative textual analysis of 24 randomly selected feature-length mass shootings articles in print and online issues of Esquire, Cosmopolitan, GQ and Glamour between January 2012-April 2017. The core findings of this research included how mass shootings almost always 12 under one of four frames: individual (internal) blame frames, societal (external) blame frames, profiling the shooter, and recovery and mourning. These articles also presented more complex sub-frames. The sub-frames included: symptoms suffered by the shooter, drugs, medication and counseling, identity, and stereotypes, political and institutional failures, access to firearms, military issues, "never saw it coming," slipping through the cracks, and the victims and survivors of mass shootings as well as community togetherness.

Shaping the conversation of women's health and reproductive rights: a textual analysis of Planned Parenthoods external communications and news coverage of womens health during the 2016 presidential election

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Madalyne Bird
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Planned Parenthood ◽  
Minimal Impact ◽  
External Communications

Planned Parenthood provides more than 2.5 million men and women every year with access to affordable health care. However, Planned Parenthood has become a central figure in the contentious political debate about a woman's right to choose versus the right to life. Using agenda setting theory as a theoretical framework and textual analysis as the methodology, this study examined how a nonprofit (Planned Parenthood) sets the agenda for news outlets through its use of external communications or public relations, focusing on the output of information in the form of press releases and Facebook posts by Planned Parenthood and whether or not those communication outputs are then input into news articles covering the 2016 presidential election and the political discussion of women's health. Results revealed that Planned Parenthood had minimal impact on news coverage of women's health in the context of the 2016 presidential election.

PROVIDING HEALTH INFORMATION TO WOMEN

2001 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl A. Moyer ◽  
Leilanya O. Vishnu ◽  
Seema S. Sonnad
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Hormone Replacement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Women's Magazines ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Health Coverage ◽  
Medical Journals ◽  
Research Studies

Objectives: We were interested in health coverage in women's magazines in the United States and how it compared with articles in medical journals, women's health interests, and women's greatest health risks.Methods: We examined 12 issues of Good Housekeeping (GH) and Woman's Day (WD) and 63 issues of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). We tallied the most common health questions of women presenting to the University of Michigan's Women's Health Resource Center (WHRC) during the same period.Results: Less than a fifth of the magazine articles dealt with health-related topics. Of those, a third dealt with diet, with the majority emphasizing weight loss rather than eating for optimal health. Few of the articles cited research studies, and even fewer included the name of the journal in which the study was published. In JAMA and NEJM, less than one-fifth of original research studies dealt with women's health topics, most commonly pregnancy-related issues, hormone replacement therapy, breast and ovarian cancer, and birth defects. At the same time, the most common requests for information at the WHRC related to pregnancy, fertility, reproductive health, and cancer.Conclusion: The topics addressed in women's magazines do not appear to coincide with the topics addressed in leading medical journals, nor with women's primary health concerns or greatest health risks. Information from women's magazines may be leading women to focus on aspects of health and health care that will not optimize risk reduction.

Women's magazines damage women's health

BMJ ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 345 (jul12 1) ◽  
pp. e4680-e4680
Author(s):  
D. Spence
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Women's Magazines

Virtuous and Wise: Apprehending Female Medical Practice from Hebrew Texts on Women’s Healthcare

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 691-711
Author(s):  
Carmen Caballero-Navas
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Health Agency ◽  
Medical Texts ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Therapeutic Procedures ◽  
Medieval Hebrew

Summary In this article, I analyse the attribution of remedies and therapeutic procedures to women, anonymous in the main, embedded in a number of texts belonging to the medieval Hebrew corpus of literature on women’s healthcare. By suggesting a classification of the ways in which both women and their healing activities are referred to, I intend to offer a framework that helps to identify Jewish (and non-Jewish) women’s health agency from medical texts. In addition to textual analysis, I compare some of the mentions with evidences found in a variety of historical and literary sources for the sake of helping to contextualise them.

Women's Health: An Ethical Perspective

1993 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Macklin
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Core Concept ◽  
Ethical Perspective ◽  
The Core ◽  
Ethical Concept ◽  
Principles Of Justice ◽  
Human Social Life

If there is one ethical concept considered to be central to human social life it is the idea of justice. Although there are several competing principles of justice, the core concept of justice embodies the obligation to treat like cases alike, in relevant respects. Women may differ from men in some respects, but the fact that women get sick, become injured, and die from preventable causes renders them similar to men in the need to carry out biomedical research, develop therapies, and attend to health problems specific to women. An ethical perspective on women’s health begins and ends with principles of justice. Although particular circumstances and conditions differ in developed and less developed countries, the ethical conclusions regarding justice are the same for women in all societies.

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