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073147
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Cambridge, MIT Press, 2006.
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ix, 384p.
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0262572265
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| 051502 | 174.2/GRO 051502 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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117773
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2012.
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This article analyzes the debates surrounding the inadequate medical care reportedly offered to Steve Biko during the final weeks of his life in 1977. For the past three decades, medical ethicists have used the so-called 'Biko Case' to define the ethical obligations of medical practitioners who operate under systems of authoritarian rule. This evaluation of Biko's death has reduced the history of apartheid to a narrative of political repression. This article argues that this process of clarifying ethical medical practices through a contrast with repressive power fails to account for the ways in which medical care itself acts as a form of power. In other words, a narrow focus on the effects of repressive power provides an insufficient strategy for evaluating both the history of Steve Biko's death and of apartheid power more broadly.
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151686
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Israeli medical ethics require that physicians avoid participating in commercials for medical and other products. Journalistic ethics require exclusion of commercial content from journalistic texts, and stipulates that media coverage of controversial issues be balanced and objective. Moreover, direct-to-consumer-advertising (DTCA) of prescription drugs and embedded marketing is banned in Israeli media. This article examines whether both norms were met in coverage of medication in three Israeli newspapers to provide the public with balanced and objective information. The level of balance in coverage was assessed by the ratio between promotional and limiting contents, using framing theory and evaluating the relative prominence of information sources, applying advanced countervailing powers theory. Results show promotional content almost three times greater than limiting contents. Prescription drug citations comprised 88% of journalistic articles. About half of these articles cited sources perceived as objective: researchers or physicians. However, given their funding dependence on drug companies, such coverage is arguably embedded marketing, which has societal implications.
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