Colonial coverage – Media reporting of a bicultural health research partnership

MEDIA RESEARCH

Description

Media coverage of a 1998 health research project on inherited stomach cancer mostly represented the discoveries as the achievement of a Pākehā genetics research team, downplaying the major contribution made by Māori researchers who were members of families affected by the cancer. Instead of celebrating a major Māori contribution to international scientific knowledge, news media delivered another example of colonial coverage – White men saving the poor natives – of a bicultural partnership.

Resources

Colonial coverage - Media reporting of a bicultural health research partnership

Resource type

Academic article

Year

2004

Primary author

Jenny Rankine

Secondary author(s)

Tim McCreanor

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