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Representing health : discourses of health and illness in the media / edited by Martin King and Katherine Watson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Basingstoke ; New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005Description: ix, 284 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0333997867
  • 9780333997864
  • 0333997875
  • 9780333997871
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 613 22
LOC classification:
  • P96.H43 R46 2005
Contents:
Introduction / Martin King and Katherine Watson -- 1. Public medicine : the reception of a medical drama / Solange Davin -- 2. Health promotion campaigns for ethnic minority groups : the case of the radio campaign for Asian populations in the UK / Yumiko Doi -- 3. Performing disability : impairment, disability and soap opera viewing / Alison Wilde -- 4. Threatened children : media representations of childhood cancer / Clive Seale -- 5. Mad cows and mad scientists : what happened to public health in the battle for the hearts and minds of the great British beef consumer? / Martin King and Clare Street -- 6. Writing digital selves : narratives of health and illness on the Internet / Michael Hardey -- 7. 'Planting landmines in their sex lives' : governmentality, iconography of sexual disease, and the 'duties' of the STD clinic / Anthony Pryce -- 8. Slicing through healthy bodies : transsexuality and the media representation of body modification / Katherine Watson and Stephen Whittle -- 9. Representing 'healthy' and 'sexual' bodies : the media, 'disabilit' and consensual 'SM' / Andrea Beckmann -- 10. Dope fiends : the myth and menace of drug users in film / Philip Guy -- 11. Disease, decay and dread : literary constructions of illness / Angela Kershaw.
Summary: Bringing together contributions from a variety of academic disciplines, this work addresses the importance of the media in shaping and reflecting public perceptions and attitudes to health and illness.Review: "Illustrated throughout, this text will be essential reading for students of Health Studies and Media Studies, and anyone interested in how our notions of health and illness are mediated."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Martin King and Katherine Watson -- 1. Public medicine : the reception of a medical drama / Solange Davin -- 2. Health promotion campaigns for ethnic minority groups : the case of the radio campaign for Asian populations in the UK / Yumiko Doi -- 3. Performing disability : impairment, disability and soap opera viewing / Alison Wilde -- 4. Threatened children : media representations of childhood cancer / Clive Seale -- 5. Mad cows and mad scientists : what happened to public health in the battle for the hearts and minds of the great British beef consumer? / Martin King and Clare Street -- 6. Writing digital selves : narratives of health and illness on the Internet / Michael Hardey -- 7. 'Planting landmines in their sex lives' : governmentality, iconography of sexual disease, and the 'duties' of the STD clinic / Anthony Pryce -- 8. Slicing through healthy bodies : transsexuality and the media representation of body modification / Katherine Watson and Stephen Whittle -- 9. Representing 'healthy' and 'sexual' bodies : the media, 'disabilit' and consensual 'SM' / Andrea Beckmann -- 10. Dope fiends : the myth and menace of drug users in film / Philip Guy -- 11. Disease, decay and dread : literary constructions of illness / Angela Kershaw.

Bringing together contributions from a variety of academic disciplines, this work addresses the importance of the media in shaping and reflecting public perceptions and attitudes to health and illness.

"Illustrated throughout, this text will be essential reading for students of Health Studies and Media Studies, and anyone interested in how our notions of health and illness are mediated."--BOOK JACKET.

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