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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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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London :
Macmillan Education UK : Imprint: Palgrave,
2005.
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- 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.
