Summary: The US model of media control and policy making is being rapidly exported across the world. Some countries are attempting to preserve their own cultural production, and there are moves to try to keep culture out of the control of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Many books on the political economy of communications have either focu
Subject(s): Mass media
Contents:Part 1: Preliminaries. Introduction to the book ; The rise of mass media -- Part 2: Theories. Concepts and models for mass communication ; Theory of media and society ; Mass communication and culture ; New media - new theory? ; Normative theory of media and society -- Part 3: Structures. Media structure a
Medical Sociology
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Subject(s): Social medicine
Summary: "This text presents the most important research studies in the field. The author also integrates engaging first-person accounts from patients, physicians, and other health care providers throughout the text. A much greater number of first person accounts and updated examples are added to the new fourteen
