Citation
(2003), "Media and Health", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 16 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijhcqa.2003.06216dae.007
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2003, MCB UP Limited
Media and Health
Media and Health
Seale, C.Sage Publications2003ISBN 0761947299 (cloth)ISBN 0761947302 (paper)
This book demonstrates how health messages in popular mass media are important influences in our lives, and that they are not neutral, being subject to many determining influences. It demonstrates the importance of mass media for understanding the experience of illness, health and healthcare, bringing together the latest thinking in the field of media studies and the sociology of health and illness. The book provides a thorough review of research literature on media representations of health, illness and healthcare, covering their production, characteristic forms and relationships with the everyday lives of media audiences. It brings together both well-known and lesser-known studies in the context of an integrated, sociological argument about media and health.