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Medicalization and beyond: the social construction of insomnia and snoring in the news
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Abstract What role do the media play in the medicalization of sleep problems? This article, based on a British Academy funded project, uses qualitative textual analysis to examine representations of insomnia and snoring in a large representative sample of newspaper articles taken from the UK national press f... mehr
What role do the media play in the medicalization of sleep problems? This article, based on a British Academy funded project, uses qualitative textual analysis to examine representations of insomnia and snoring in a large representative sample of newspaper articles taken from the UK national press from the mid-1980s to the present day. Constructed as `common problems' in the population at large, insomnia and snoring we show are differentially located in terms of medicalizing—healthicizing discourses and debates. Our findings also suggest important differences in the gendered construction of these problems and in terms of tabloid and `broadsheet' newspaper coverage of these issues. Newspaper constructions of sleep, it is concluded, are complex, depending on both the `problem' and the paper in question.... weniger
Freie Schlagwörter
insomnia; media; medicalization; press; snoring;
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2008
Seitenangabe
S. 251-268
Zeitschriftentitel
Health, 12 (2008) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459307086846
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)