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Citation
(2005), "Representing Health", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 18 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijhcqa.2005.06218fae.001
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2005, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Representing Health
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Representing Health
Martin King and Katherine Watson,Palgrave Macmillan,2004ISBN 0 33339 97875
Keywords: Public health, Public involvement, Media in health care
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 analyses media as diverse as television, cinema, literature, print media and the internet. Centring on themes of “virtual” bodies, audiences, representations and public health, it examines discourses of sexuality, gender, race, disability, childhood, medico-moral panics, regulation and governmentality.
Contents include:
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Audience reception studies.
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Discourses of health and illness in the print media and internet.
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Unruly bodies and the media.
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Morality and health: discourses of good and evil in health texts.