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

Stephen Harper*

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Number of pages238
ISBN (Electronic)9780230249509
ISBN (Print)9780230218802 (hbk), 9781349304585
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 Jul 2009

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