Media representations of health and disease: meanings and impositions of bodies and lifestyles
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https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v15i2.2406Keywords:
Representation, Media, Health, Body, Obesity.Abstract
The book by Igor Sacramento and Wilson Couto Borges offers excellent material for studying health media representations. In addition to presenting a theoretical panorama of representation, as part of the process of constructing reality and social groups, the authors methodologically adopt the notion of subject position as central to the representation, as it places individuals in roles, and analyze reports about excess fat in newspapers, television programs and audio-visual productions on the internet. It is possible to perceive how the media treats the body as an index of health or disease and normality or abnormality due to body shapes, requiring obese people or those at risk to self-control, which is justified by physical changes and psychosocial issues.
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