TY - BOOK
T1 - Madness, Power and the Media
T2 - Class, Gender and Race in Popular Representations of Mental Distress
AU - Harper, Stephen
PY - 2009/7/30
Y1 - 2009/7/30
N2 - 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.
AB - 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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UR - https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9780230218802#aboutBook
U2 - 10.1057/9780230249509
DO - 10.1057/9780230249509
M3 - Book
AN - SCOPUS:79960664724
SN - 9780230218802 (hbk)
SN - 9781349304585
BT - Madness, Power and the Media
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - London
ER -