Madness, Power and the Media

S. Harper

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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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.

ISBN-13
9780230218802
ISBN-10
0230218806
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2009
Publication date
2009-07-30
Pages
238
Dimensions
216x140x