Representing Health Discourses of Health and Illness in the Media /

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...

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: King, Martin (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Watson, Katherine (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: London : Macmillan Education UK : Imprint: Palgrave, 2005.
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505 0 |a Introduction; M.King & K.Watson -- PART ONE: AUDIENCE RECEPTION STUDIES Public Medicine: The Reception of a Medical Drama; S.Davin -- Primitive Communications: The Case of the Radio Campaign for Asian Populations in the UK; Y.Doi -- Performing Disability: Impairment, Disability and Soap Opera Viewing; A.Wilde -- PART TWO: DISCOURSES OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS IN THE PRINT MEDIA AND THE INTERNET Threatened Children: Media Representations of Childhood Cancer; C.Seale -- Mad 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.Street -- Writing Digital Selves: Narratives of Health and Illness in the Internet; M.Hardey -- PART 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.Price -- Slicing Through Healthy Bodies: The Media Representation of Body Modification; K.Watson & S.Whittle -- Representing 'Healthy' and 'Sexual' Bodies: The Media, Disability and Consensual 'SM'; A.Beckmann -- PART FOUR: MORALITY AND HEALTH: DISCOURSES OF GOOD AND EVIL IN HEALTH TEXTS Dope Fiends: The Myth and Menace of Drug Users in Film; P.Guy -- Disease, Decay and Dread: Literary Constructions of Illness; A.Kershaw. 
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