Representing Health

ANDREA BECKMANN Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Lincoln, UK SOLANGE DAVIN Senior Lecturer at Edinburgh University, UK YUMIKO DOI Research Associate in the Department of Geography at the University of Liverpool, UK PHILLIP GUY Lecturer in Addictions at the University of Hull, UK MICHAEL HARDEY Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at the University of Newcastle, UK ANGELA KERSHAW Lecturer in the School of Languages and European Studies at Aston University, UK ANTHONY PRYCE Reader in the Sociology of Sexual Health at City University, London, UK CLIVE SEALE Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK CLARE STREET Senior Lecturer in the Department of Health Care Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK STEPHEN WHITTLE Reader in the School of Law at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK ALISON WILDE Researcher in the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds, UK

Representing Health addresses the importance of the media in shaping and reflecting public perceptions and attitudes to health and illness.Representing Health addresses the importance of the media in shaping and reflecting public perceptions and attitudes to health and illness. Bringing together contributions from a variety of academic disciplines, this lively text examines contemporary theoretical debates and analyzes media as diverse as television, cinema, literature, print media and the Internet. Centring around themes of 'virtual' bodies, audiences, representations and public health, it examines discourses of sexuality, gender, race, disability, childhood, medico-moral panics, regulation and governmentality.