Representing Health

Download or read book Representing Health written by Martin King and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-11 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.