Health and Media

1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-4051-1244-4
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 287 g

This book is a collection of the best contemporary studies on health and the media.

- A collection of the best contemporary studies on health and the media.

- Brings together perspectives from media studies and medical sociology.

- Illuminates the influence that the mass media have on health beliefs and behaviour, and on health care practices and policy-making.

- Covers previously neglected areas, such as the role of the Internet, studies of production and reception, and the reporting of health care policies.

- Points the way forward for future developments in this exciting new field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Seale, Clive

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Health and Media: An Overview (Clive Seale).

2. ‘Radical Blueprint for Social Change’? Media Representations of New Labour’s Policies and Inequalities on Public Health (Rosemary Davidson, Kate Hunt and Jenny Kitzinger).

3. Narrativity and the Mediation of Health Reform Agendas (Darrin Hodgetts and Kerry Chamberlain.

4. Going Public: References to the News Media in NHS Contract Negotiations (David Hughes and Lesley Gruffitgs).

5. ‘Ignorance is Bliss Sometimes’: Constraints on the Emergence of the ‘Informed Patient’ in the Changing Landscapes of Health Information (Flis Henwood, Sally Wyatt, Angie Hart and Julie Smith).

6. Media Activism and Internet Use by People with HIV/AIDS (James Gillett).

7. Popular Media and ‘Excessive Daytime Sleepiness’: A Study of Rhetorical Authority in Medical Sociology (Steve Kroll-Smith).

8. Bio-phobias/Techno-philias: Virtual Reality Exposure as Treatment for Phobias of ‘Nature’ (Joyce Davidson and Mick Smith).

9. Healthy Viewing: The Reception of Medical Narratives (Solange Davin).

10. ‘About a Year Before the Breakdown I Was Having Symptoms’: Sadness, Pathology and the Australian Newspaper Media (Rob Rowe, Farida Tilbury, Mark Rapley and Ilse O’Ferrall).

Notes on Contributors.

Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Clive Seale is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Human Sciences, Brunel University. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Researching Society and Culture (1998), Constructing Death: the Sociology of Dying and Bereavement (1998), The Quality of Qualitative Research (1999), Health and Disease: A Reader (Third Edition, 2002), and Media and Health (2002).