Media and health

How are health matters presented by the mass media? How accurate are the messages we are receiving? Media and Health demonstrates how health messages in popular mass media are important influences in our lives, and that they are not neutral, being subject to many determining influences

This book demonstrates how health messages in popular mass media are important influences in our lives, and that they are not neutral, being subject to many determining influences. It demonstrates the importance of mass media for understanding the experience of illness, health and health care