Representing Health : Discourses of Health and Illness in the Media PDF
by King Martin King, Watson Katherine Watson
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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.
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- Pages:296 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publication Date:11/03/2017
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- ISBN:9780230802483
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:296 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publication Date:11/03/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9780230802483