UK national newspapers' representation of cancer patients and their care during the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic: Invoking and undermining solidarity?
Sociol Health Illn
; 2024 May 25.
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ABSTRACT
During the COVID-19 pandemic media narratives of solidarity often cast nations like the UK as if at war, while acclaiming health-care workers as heroic and beloved. However, this solidarity was often fragile and fleeting, as concerns and criticism about workers, citizens and services also circulated. In this article we explore these dynamics of solidarity in more depth, analysing framings of cancer patient suffering, private and public provision of health care in news media during the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic. We explore how cancer patients were positioned as victims of failure and abandonment by the state and its health-care providers, and how the private health-care system was presented in a saviour role. We conclude by reflecting on the implications of new media's alignment of appeals to solidarity with highly individualised forms of care and the consequences for state-based services founded on principles of solidarity.
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MEDLINE
Idioma:
En
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Sociol Health Illn
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Sociol. health illn
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Sociology of health & illness
Ano de publicação:
2024
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de publicação:
Reino Unido