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Representing Health: Discourses of Health and Illness in the Media
Martin King
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Description for Representing Health: Discourses of Health and Illness in the Media
Paperback. Representing Health addresses the importance of the media in shaping and reflecting public perceptions and attitudes to health and illness. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 25. Weight in Grams: 450.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333997871
SKU
V9780333997871
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Ref
99-10
About Martin King
MARTIN KING is Senior Lecturer and KATHERINE WATSON is Lecturer, both in the Department of Health Care Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
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