Culture, Coma, and the Media – Online Course

Check out this course at Cardiff University. It explores how (un)consciousness, coma and the vegetative state are represented in the media.  This course allows you to engage with debates about the portrayal of patients and reporting of  ‘miracle’ recoveries, court cases and scientific breakthroughs. It addresses implications for family and public understandings. This course will help develop your understanding of ‘coma’ and your skills in writing for the media or being a critical media consumer or researcher, or supporting patients and their families. I like this page which includes interviews and commentaries on key cases like Nancy Cruzan, Aruna Shanbaug, an Eluana Englaro.
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