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The portrayal of foreign doctors in the American press: A critical discourse analytical approach.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The portrayal of foreign doctors in the American press: A critical discourse analytical approach./
作者:	Sanders, David Alan.
面頁冊數:	144 p.
附註:	Adviser: Charles Hall.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-05A.
標題:	Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3263711
ISBN:	9780549020158

The portrayal of foreign doctors in the American press: A critical discourse analytical approach.
Sanders, David Alan.

The portrayal of foreign doctors in the American press: A critical discourse analytical approach. - 144 p.

Adviser: Charles Hall.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Memphis, 2007.

This study uses the tools of critical discourse analysis (CDA) to examine American newspapers for the portrayal of foreign doctors, who now account for a quarter of the physicians in the United States. This topic is important since imbalanced portrayals of foreign doctors in the news could alienate patients from an important contingent of doctors in the United States. Previous research into the ways people respond to media coverage of medical issues, such as the flu or prescription drugs, shows that people tend to believe the medical information presented by the news media and approach their medical care accordingly. Likewise, other CDA research, which examines inequalities between groups in a culture and the linguistic ways the imbalance of power is perpetuated by the dominant groups in a culture, reveals a prevalence of racist attitudes towards minority groups in the press. Combining these results from those two areas of research, the power of the press becomes even clearer in shaping attitudes towards doctors from other countries.

ISBN: 9780549020158Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017756
Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery.

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520 $a Based on a close reading of 429 newspaper articles covering seventeen years, this paper demonstrates that the American written press paints a negative picture of foreign doctors in the United States, but that the degree of negativity depends on issues within the larger culture, such as Medicare budget, immigration, or national security. In the absence of larger issues concerning foreign doctors, reporters tend to focus on individual doctors and the communities where they live without discussing the doctors as a group. Such articles, however, are rare in this corpus. Most articles view foreign doctors as superfluous to American medicine, and many stories portray foreign physicians as detrimental to American health care. Even when news articles portray foreign doctors (as a group) as important to a given community, they present those doctors as an imperfect alternative to American doctors. To help improve the presentation of foreign doctors in the American press, reporters should be educated on how to present foreign physicians more fairly, and the medical community should be educated on how to release information to the press without a negative bias towards foreign doctors.
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