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CHILDREN?S HEALTHCARE AND PARENTAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT IN URBAN IBD

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
11 / 2016
9781137498762
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Sinopsis

This book analyses parental anxieties about their childrenâÇÖs healthcare issues in urban China, engaging with wider theoretical debates about modernity, risk and anxiety. It examines the broader social, cultural and historical contexts of parental anxiety by analysing a series of socio-economic changes and population policy changes in post-reform China that contextualise parental experiences. Drawing on WilkinsonâÇÖs (2001) conceptualisation linking individualâÇÖs risk consciousness to anxiety, this book analyses the situated risk experiences of parentsâÇÖ and grandparentsâÇÖ, looking particularly into their engagement with various types of media. It studies the representations of health issues and health-related risks in a parenting magazine, popular newspapers, commercial advertising and new media, as well as parentsâÇÖ and grandparentsâÇÖ engagement with and response to these media representations. By investigating âÇÖa culture of anxietyâÇÖ among parents and grandparents in contemporary China, this book seeks to add to the scholarship of contemporary parenthood in a non- Western context.á

PVP
120,24