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Madness, Power and the Media: Class, Gender and Race in Popular Representations of Mental Distress Book

Madness, Power and the Media : Hardback : Palgrave Macmillan : 9780230218802 : 0230218806 : 30 Jul 2009 : 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.Read More

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    Questioning the psychiatric construction of mental distress as illness, and challenging existing studies of media stigmatization, Stephen Harper argues that todays...

  • Product Description

    This book is an examination of the language and images used to depict mental distress in contemporary popular culture, including analysis of news media, magazines, television and film.

  • 0230218806
  • 9780230218802
  • Stephen Harper
  • 30 July 2009
  • Palgrave Macmillan
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 240
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