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Children's Healthcare and Parental Media Engagement in Urban China
Qian Gong
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Description for Children's Healthcare and Parental Media Engagement in Urban China
Hardback. Analysing parental anxieties about children s healthcare in urban China, this book engages with debates about modernity, risk and anxiety by analysing economic and population policy changes in post-reform China. It studies representations of health issues in a parenting magazine, advertising and new media, with parents and grandparents responses. Num Pages: 216 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, 6 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFD; JFSP1; JHBK; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
This book analyses parental anxieties about their children’s healthcare issues in urban China, engaging with wider theoretical debates about modernity, risk and anxiety. It examines the broader social, cultural and historical contexts of parental anxiety by analysing a series of socio-economic changes and population policy changes in post-reform China that contextualise parental experiences. Drawing on Wilkinson’s (2001) conceptualisation linking individual’s risk consciousness to anxiety, this book analyses the situated risk experiences of parents’ and grandparents’, looking particularly into their engagement with various types of media. It studies the representations of health issues and health-related risks in a parenting magazine, popular ... Read more
This book analyses parental anxieties about their children’s healthcare issues in urban China, engaging with wider theoretical debates about modernity, risk and anxiety. It examines the broader social, cultural and historical contexts of parental anxiety by analysing a series of socio-economic changes and population policy changes in post-reform China that contextualise parental experiences. Drawing on Wilkinson’s (2001) conceptualisation linking individual’s risk consciousness to anxiety, this book analyses the situated risk experiences of parents’ and grandparents’, looking particularly into their engagement with various types of media. It studies the representations of health issues and health-related risks in a parenting magazine, popular ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
214
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137498762
SKU
V9781137498762
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Qian Gong
Qian (Sarah) Gong is a lecturer in the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Leicester, UK. Her recent research interests include health communication, risk, parenting and motherhood. She is currently the Principal investigator of a Wellcome Trust funded project Health communication for Chinese migrant mothers in Northern England.
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