This book is a collection of the best contemporary studies on health and the media.

• A collection of the best contemporary studies on health and the media.


• Brings together perspectives from media studies and medical sociology.


• Illuminates the influence that the mass media have on health beliefs and behaviour, and on health care practices and policy-making.


• Covers previously neglected areas, such as the role of the Internet, studies of production and reception, and the reporting of health care...

This book represents the first collection of research on health social movements.

• Demonstrates that health social movements are an innovative and powerful form of political action.
  
• Brings together the study of health and illness with social movement theory in order to establish a basis for the study of health social movements.
  
• Covers disease-based movements focused on diseases such as Alzheimer's and breast cancer.
  
• Also addresses issue-based movements such as the pro-choice movement, the movement for complementary and alternative...