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

by Stephen Harper and Stephen Harper

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230218806
• ISBN13: 9780230218802
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.6"