Madness, Power and the Media
Class, Gender and Race in Popular Representations of Mental Distress| By: | S. Harper |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9780230218802 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780230249509 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2009 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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.