Media and health: moral panics, miracles, and medicalisation

Title: Media and health: moral panics, miracles, and medicalisation
Creator: Germov, John; Freij, Maria
Relation: Second Opinion p. 337-356
Relation: http://www.oup.com.au/titles/higher_ed/health_sciences/9780195520149
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2014
Description: We are saturated by mass media information on a daily basis, and to such an extent that for most people it is their key source of information, understanding, and experience of the world. Therefore it is crucial to develop a sociological understanding of media content and influence.
Subject: health literacy; mass media; social determinants of health
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1067109
Identifier: uon:18305
Identifier: ISBN:9780195520149
Language: eng