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‘The Problem with Men’: Working-class Men Making Sense of Men’s Health on Television

Darrin Hodgetts

London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, D.J.Hodgetts{at}lse.ac.uk

Kerry Chamberlain

Massey University, New Zealand

Men have higher rates of premature death than women, and may arguably have higher rates of serious illness. One explanation often suggested to account for this is that men are considered to be stoical about illness and reluctant to seek help for it. This article explores the role of media representations in the construction of men’s views about health. We investigate how a small group of lower socio-economic status men make sense of the reluctance to seek help notion through an analysis of texts from three sources: a television health documentary, individual interviews with the men and a focus group discussion in which the men discuss the documentary. The television documentary frames its presentation to promote early detection and help-seeking. We conclude that televised coverage of men’s health is an important site of social discourse through which men’s health is rendered meaningful. However, it is not accepted passively, but negotiated, resisted and interpreted into men’s lives.

Key Words: audience • health • men • television

Journal of Health Psychology, Vol. 7, No. 3, 269-283 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/1359105302007003221
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