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

Harper, S.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2009-07-30

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230218802

DOI: 10.1057/9780230249509

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 238