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Subject(s)

• Children in mass media [Browse]
• Children—Health and hygiene—China [Browse]
• Parenting—China [Browse]

Summary note

This book analyses parental anxieties about their children's 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 Wilkinson's (2001) conceptualisation linking individual's risk consciousness to anxiety, this book analyses the situated risk experiences of parents' and grandparents', 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 parents' and grandparents' engagement with and response to these media representations.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction
• Risk and children's healthcare in modern China
• Contextualising parental experiences in post-reform China
• Feeding fears: news coverage of the infant formula scandal and health risk communication
• Mediating nature, risk and scientific protection: advertising discourse of healthcare products and parental reception
• Managing anxiety: parental engagement with new media and civic participation
• Conclusion: a culture of anxiety?

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ISBN

• 9781137498762 ((hardcover : acid-free paper))
• 1137498765 ((hardcover : acid-free paper))
• 1137498773
• 9781137498779

LCCN

2016948366

OCLC

952789471

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