Download or read book Madness, Power and the Media written by S. Harper and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questioning the psychiatric construction of mental distress as 'illness', and challenging existing studies of media stigmatization, Stephen Harper argues that today's media images of mental distress are often sympathetic, yet tend to reproduce the sexist, classist, racist and individualist ideologies of contemporary capitalism.