Description
Book Synopsis* 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.
Table of Contents1. 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.
