With specific examples drawn from popular media, this volume examines the extent to which developments in the communication and portrayal of biomedical discourses in Asia have given the broader public both greater access to information and choices. Multidisciplinary in scope and international in focus, it relates the everyday of health communications to more macro social trends on the Asian continent and will be of interest to scholars within science and technology studies, media and cultural studies and sociology.
With specific examples drawn from popular media, this volume examines the extent to which developments in the communication and portrayal of biomedical discourses in Asia have given the broader public both greater access to information and choices. Multidisciplinary in scope and international in focus, it relates the everyday of health communications to more macro social trends on the Asian continent and will be of interest to scholars within science and technology studies, media and cultural studies and sociology.
Liew Kai Khiun is a postdoctoral researcher at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore
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Introduction Liew Kai Khiun; Part I Liberalizing Health; Chapter 1 Mediations of Health and the Development of a Nation: Late Suharto Late Modernity Steve Ferzacca; Chapter 2 Reporting HIV and its Broader Impact in Asia: The Case of Papua New Guinea (PNG) Trevor Cullen; Chapter 3 Reading HIV/AIDS in the Indian Media: Social Cultural and Economic Constructions Shaunak Sastry Mohan J. Dutta; Chapter 4 Press Coverage of Bird Flu Epidemic in Vietnam Annick Guénel Sylvia Klingberg; Part II Feminizing Health; Chapter 5 Caesarean Birth Media Motherhood and Nation in Taiwan Chen-I Kuan; Chapter 6 Information and Decision Making among Women with Breast Cancer: Constraints on the Informed Decision Khor Yoke Lim Gerald Goh Guan Gan; Chapter 7 Making the Oral Contraceptive "for Me" in Japan: Managing the Semiotics of Reproductive Health in Virtual Space Kathryn Goldfarb; Part III Popularizing Health; Chapter 8 The Radio Communication Project in Nepal: Culture Power and Meaning in Constructions of Health Mohan J. Dutta Iccha Basnyat; Chapter 9 Of Plastic Beauties and Flower Boys: Representations of Cosmetic Surgery in South Korean Films Kelly Fu; Chapter 10 When Distortion is Normal: The Media and Body Image Disturbance among Young People in Hong Kong Annisa Lee Lai; Chapter 11 How to Live: Reading China's Popular Health Media Judith Farquhar;
Introduction Liew Kai Khiun; Part I Liberalizing Health; Chapter 1 Mediations of Health and the Development of a Nation: Late Suharto Late Modernity Steve Ferzacca; Chapter 2 Reporting HIV and its Broader Impact in Asia: The Case of Papua New Guinea (PNG) Trevor Cullen; Chapter 3 Reading HIV/AIDS in the Indian Media: Social Cultural and Economic Constructions Shaunak Sastry Mohan J. Dutta; Chapter 4 Press Coverage of Bird Flu Epidemic in Vietnam Annick Guénel Sylvia Klingberg; Part II Feminizing Health; Chapter 5 Caesarean Birth Media Motherhood and Nation in Taiwan Chen-I Kuan; Chapter 6 Information and Decision Making among Women with Breast Cancer: Constraints on the Informed Decision Khor Yoke Lim Gerald Goh Guan Gan; Chapter 7 Making the Oral Contraceptive "for Me" in Japan: Managing the Semiotics of Reproductive Health in Virtual Space Kathryn Goldfarb; Part III Popularizing Health; Chapter 8 The Radio Communication Project in Nepal: Culture Power and Meaning in Constructions of Health Mohan J. Dutta Iccha Basnyat; Chapter 9 Of Plastic Beauties and Flower Boys: Representations of Cosmetic Surgery in South Korean Films Kelly Fu; Chapter 10 When Distortion is Normal: The Media and Body Image Disturbance among Young People in Hong Kong Annisa Lee Lai; Chapter 11 How to Live: Reading China's Popular Health Media Judith Farquhar;
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