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Madness, Power and the Media
Stephen Harper
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Description for Madness, Power and the Media
Hardback. Questioning the psychiatric construction of mental distress as 'illness', and challenging existing studies of media stigmatization, Stephen Harper argues that today's media images of mental distress are often sympathetic, yet tend to reproduce the sexist, classist, racist and individualist ideologies of contemporary capitalism. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JFFG; JFSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
Questioning the psychiatric construction of mental distress as 'illness', and challenging existing studies of media stigmatization, Stephen Harper argues that today's media images of mental distress are often sympathetic, yet tend to reproduce the sexist, classist, racist and individualist ideologies of contemporary capitalism.
Questioning the psychiatric construction of mental distress as 'illness', and challenging existing studies of media stigmatization, Stephen Harper argues that today's media images of mental distress are often sympathetic, yet tend to reproduce the sexist, classist, racist and individualist ideologies of contemporary capitalism.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Number of Pages
238
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230218802
SKU
V9780230218802
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99-15
About Stephen Harper
STEPHEN HARPER is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK.
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