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Media constructions of sleep and sleep disorders : a study of UK national newspapers
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Seale, Clive, Boden, Sharon, Williams, Simon J. (Simon Johnson), 1961-, Lowe, Pam and Steinberg, Deborah Lynn. (2007) Media constructions of sleep and sleep disorders : a study of UK national newspapers. Social Science & Medicine, Vol.65 (No.3). pp. 418-430. ISSN 0277-9536
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.03.035
Abstract
Medicalisation, healthicisation and 'personal' strategies have been identified as the main factors contributing to the socially mediated experience of sleep and sleep disorders in modern societies. Medicalisation and healthicisation are publicly available discourses. But the degree to which apparently 'personal' strategies for managing sleep are presented in popular media has been underestimated. This study of the coverage of 5 UK newspapers shows that both medicalised and healthicised discourses are concentrated in the 'serious' press. The tabloid press is more likely to constitute sleep as a private realm and tabloid readers are therefore relatively less exposed to officially sanctioned forms of knowledge about sleep. Analysis of Daily Mail coverage shows, though, that women's 'personal' strategies for managing sleep are far from being private solutions. The Mail presents this topic as a component of its social construction of a 'Middle England' lifestyle, giving these apparently 'personal' solutions a political resonance.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine H Social Sciences |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Social Science & Medicine |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 0277-9536 |
| Date: | August 2007 |
| Volume: | Vol.65 |
| Number: | No.3 |
| Number of Pages: | 13 |
| Page Range: | pp. 418-430 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.03.035 |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
| URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/31425 |
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