Representing Health

Discourses of Health and Illness in the Media

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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Beskrivning

Representing Health addresses the importance of the media in shaping and reflecting public perceptions and attitudes to health and illness. Bringing together contributions from a variety of academic disciplines, this lively text examines contemporary theoretical debates and analyzes media as diverse as television, cinema, literature, print media and the Internet. Centring around themes of 'virtual' bodies, audiences, representations and public health, it examines discourses of sexuality, gender, race, disability, childhood, medico-moral panics, regulation and governmentality.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-11-23
Mått:155 x 235 x 16 mm
Vikt:354 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780333997871

Utforska kategorier

Sociologi och antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

MARTIN KING is Senior Lecturer and KATHERINE WATSON is Lecturer, both in the Department of Health Care Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; M.King & K.WatsonPART ONE: AUDIENCE RECEPTION STUDIES Public Medicine: The Reception of a Medical Drama; S.DavinPrimitive Communications: The Case of the Radio Campaign for Asian Populations in the UK; Y.DoiPerforming Disability: Impairment, Disability and Soap Opera Viewing; A.WildePART TWO: DISCOURSES OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS IN THE PRINT MEDIA AND THE INTERNET Threatened Children: Media Representations of Childhood Cancer; C.SealeMad Cows and Mad Scientists: What Happened to Public Health in the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Great British Consumer?; M.King & C.StreetWriting Digital Selves: Narratives of Health and Illness in the Internet; M.HardeyPART THREE: UNRULY BODIES AND THE MEDIA 'Planting Landmines in Their Sex Lives...': Governmentality, Iconography of Sexual Disease and the 'Duties' of the STD Clinic; A.PriceSlicing Through Healthy Bodies: The Media Representation of Body Modification; K.Watson & S.WhittleRepresenting 'Healthy' and 'Sexual' Bodies: The Media, Disability and Consensual 'SM'; A.BeckmannPART FOUR: MORALITY AND HEALTH: DISCOURSES OF GOOD AND EVIL IN HEALTH TEXTS Dope Fiends: The Myth and Menace of Drug Users in Film; P.GuyDisease, Decay and Dread: Literary Constructions of Illness; A.Kershaw.