I haven’t checked these links yet but as you know, media race bias masked as weight bias is a major research interest of mine.
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:54:20 -0800
From: Sally Lehrman <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [ahcj-l] Media framing diabetes in AI/AN population as
lifestyle issue and public policy
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Forgot to mention, this is an issue that I've been working on across a variety of capacities. You can hear the radio documentary we did on obesity and diabetes among the Pima if you click "Rewriting Heredity" here:
http://www.dnafiles.org/programs
Best,
Sally Lehrman
On 12/12/2011 4:07 PM, Andrew Holtz wrote:
>
> My sense is that individual behavior is often the underlying theme of
> most stories about ailments related to obesity in all populations.
> (Last year, I did a story on the focus on individuals that?s available
> here: http://www.lmpn.tv/#/news/28)
>
> However, Renita Coleman at the University of Texas
> [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> recently told
> me she had done a study of news reports that found journalists are
> using social, rather than individual, frames in health stories more
> often these days. That said, reader comments indicate that people
> still tend put blame on the individual.
>
> The ?Unnatural Causes? PBS series did an episode titled ?Bad Sugar?
> that specifically looked at the research on diabetes among Pima
> Indians? and the historical, social and economic forces at play? in
> addition to the genetic and behavioral factors that have been the
> focus of most of the medical research on this population. You can see
> a transcript and other info at
> http://unnaturalcauses.org/episode_descriptions.php?page=4
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>
> Andrew Holtz
>
> Portland, OR
>
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