Representing Health : Discourses of Health and Illness in the Media
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0333997875
ISBN-13
9780333997871
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint
Red Globe Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 23rd, 2004
Print length
296 Pages
Weight
354 grams
Product Classification:
Sociology & anthropologySociology and anthropology
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Representing Health addresses the importance of the media in shaping and reflecting public perceptions and attitudes to health and illness.
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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