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.
- ISBN10 6610860505
- ISBN13 9786610860500
- Publish Date 19 November 2004
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 22 June 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Palgrave MacMillan
- Format eBook
- Language English