Publications

Publication details [#44626]

Zoller, H.M. and Tracy Worrell. 2006. Television Illness Depictions, Identity, and Social Experience: Responses to Multiple Sclerosis on The West Wing Among People With MS. Journal of Health Communication 20 (1) : 69–79.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

disease terminology | experience | health | identity negotiation | television

Place, Publisher

Erlbaum

Annotation

This study uses viewer responses to multiple sclerosis depiction in the televised hospital drama West Wing from 1999 to 2002, to explore audience interpretation of television depictions of illness.