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Representing Health
Discourses of Health and Illness in the Media
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Representing Health
Discourses of Health and Illness in the Media
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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.
Table of Contents
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.
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.
Product details
| Published | 11 Mar 2017 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 296 |
| ISBN | 9780230802483 |
| Imprint | Red Globe Press |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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