“Superbugs” in the Risk Society: Assessing the Reflexive Function of North American Newspaper Coverage of Antimicrobial Resistance
This article examines how antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is covered in four elite North American newspapers and whether the dailies act as sites of reflexive modernization. I draw on risk society theory to situate AMR as a modern risk and news media as key spaces for reflexivity. Through a qualitati...
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| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2020-01-01
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| Series: | SAGE Open |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244020901800 |