TY  - BOOK
TI  - Liberalizing, Feminizing, and Popularizing Health Communications in Asia
SN  - 9780754678397 (hc : alk. paper)
U1  - 362.1082095 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Burlington, VT
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - Women -- Health and hygiene -- Asia.
KW  -  Health education
KW  - Health education -- Asia
N1  - 	Contents: Introduction, Liew Kai Khiun; 

Part 1 Liberalizing Health: Mediations of health and the development of a nation: late Suharto and late modernity, Steve Ferzacca; Reporting HIV and its broader impact in Asia: the case of Papua New Guinea, Trevor Cullen; Reading HIV/AIDS in the Indian media: social, cultural and economic constructions, Shaunak Sastry and Mohan J. Dutta; Press coverage of bird flu epidemic in Vietnam, Annick GuA(c)nel and Sylvia Klingberg. 

Part 2 Feminizing Health: Caesarean birth, media, motherhood and nation in Taiwan, Chen-I Kuan; Information and decision making among women with breast cancer: constraints on the informed decision, Khor Yoke Lim and Gerald Goh Guan Gan; Making the oral contraceptive 'for me' in Japan: managing the semiotics of reproductive health in virtual space, Kathryn Goldfarb. 

Part 3 Popularizing Health: the radio communication project in Nepal: culture, power and meaning in constructions of health, Mohan J. Dutta and Iccha Basnyat; Of plastic beauties and flower boys: representations of cosmetic surgery in South Korean films, Kelly Fu; When distortion is normal: the media and body image disturbance among young people in Hong Kong, Annisa Lee Lai; How to live: reading China's popular health media, Judith Farquhar; Index
ER  -