Harper Stephen:
Madness, Power And The Media
Class, Gender And Race In Popular Representations Of Mental Distress
Palgrave Macmillan (United Kingdom), 2009
Hardback, 248 pages
Size: 222x144 mm
ISBN: 9780230218802
ISBN-10: 0230218806
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Madness, Power And The Media
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.

