Madness, Power and the Media by S Harper

Madness, Power and the Media by S Harper

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Questioning the psychiatric construction of mental distress as 'illness', and challenging existing studies of media stigmatization, Stephen Harper argues that today's media images of mental distress are often sympathetic, yet tend to reproduce the sexist, classist, racist and individualist ideologies of contemporary capitalism.

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Madness, Power and the Media by S Harper

Questioning the psychiatric construction of mental distress as 'illness', and challenging existing studies of media stigmatization, Stephen Harper argues that today's media images of mental distress are often sympathetic, yet tend to reproduce the sexist, classist, racist and individualist ideologies of contemporary capitalism.
STEPHEN HARPER is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK.
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ISBN 13 9780230218802
ISBN 10 0230218806
Titel Madness, Power and the Media
Autor S Harper
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Verlag Palgrave Macmillan
Erscheinungsjahr 2009-07-30
Seitenanzahl 238
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