title: Health legacies from Franklin Roosevelt to Robert Dole, or how medical and health care issues took over the nation's news.
abstract: Coverage of medical and health care issues has become a staple of the American press. To explain today's saturation of such coverage, I present a political continuum from reporting on the health of President Franklin Roosevelt to that of Republican presidential candidate Robert Dole. I suggest that the public can better be served by disclosures of medical records of political candidates as well as of elected officials.
authors.affiliation: School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Iowa, Iowa City 55242-1592, USA.
authors.forename: S G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Bloom
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D005197:Famous Persons; D006076:Government; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009524:Newspapers as Topic; D014481:United States