Representing Health

Discourses of Health and Illness in the Media

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

Av Martin King, Katherine Watson, UK) King, Martin (Department of Health Care Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2004-11-23
Mått155 x 235 x 16 mm
Vikt354 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor296
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9780333997871

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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.