These resources are prepared for Dr. Nancy Signorielli's presentation relating to mass media and health on 5 October. For more information on the program visit the Center for Ethics website.

Material by Nancy Signorielli, on Library Reserve for The Center for Ethics

Signorielli, N. (2004). Aging on television: Messages relating to gender, race, and occupation in prime time. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 48(2), 279-301.

Signorielli, N. (2001). Television's gender role images and contribution to stereotyping: Past, present, future. In D. G. Singer & J. L. Singer (Eds). Handbook of children and the media (pp. 341-358). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Main Collection 302.2345 S617h

Signorielli, N. (1993). Mass media images and impact on health: a sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Main Collection 362.1014 S578m

Signorielli, N. & Kahlenberg, S. (2001). Television's world of work in the nineties. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 45(1), 1-19.
URL: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=4422438&db=ufh

Signorielli, N., & Staples, J. (1997). Television and children's conceptions of nutrition. Health Communication, 9(4), 289-301.
URL: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=7389978&db=ufh

Reference Works

Mass Media Resources

Johnston, Donald H., ed. Encyclopedia of international media and communications. San Diego, CA: Academic, 2003.
Ref. 302.2303 E56o v.1-4

Schement, Jorge Reina, ed. Encyclopedia of communication and information. New York : Macmillan Reference USA, 2002
Ref. 302.203 E56o v.1-3

Watson, James and Anne Hill. A dictionary of communication and media studies, 4th ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997
Ref. 302.2 W339d, 1997

Disease Resources

Longe, Jacqueline L., ed. Gale encyclopedia of medicine, 2nd ed. Detroit, MI: Gale Group, 2002.
Ref. 616.003 G151e v.1-5

Nordhaus, Hannah. Health : a concern for every American. Detroit, MI: Gale Group, 2001.
Ref. 362.1 H863h

Turkington, Carol and Bonnie Ashby.Encyclopedia of infectious diseases. New York: Facts on File, 1998.
Ref. 616.903 T939e

Finding Articles: Databases and Indexes

Topical Databases:

Comunication and Mass Media Complete
Primary communication studies database; includes many full-text communication studies journal titles.

ComAbstracts
Index and abstract for communication studiesm, with less in-depth coverage than Communication and Mass Media Complete.

Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI)
Excellent source for finding articles on women and deafness.

Health Source
Full-text database that is focused on medical, health, and public health information. HealthSource contains both scholarly and popular articles.

Sociological Abstracts (SocAbs)
This database is an excellent source for finding articles on the sociology of mass media.

Interdisciplinary Databases:

Academic Search Premier
Indexes, Abstracts, Citations and Full text publications covering most disciplines.

Lexis-Nexis Academic
General news magazines, periodicals, international news, etc…

OmniFile (WilsonWeb)
Multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content--indexing, abstracts, and full text--from six of Wilson's full-text databases.

Subject Headings

Using these Library of Congress Subject Headings in your searches will help you obtain more relevant information from databases and the library catalog:

Diseases in art
Diseases in literature
Health in mass media
Health promotion
Mass media in health education
Television in health education

Selected works from the main collection:

Gilman, Sander L. Disease and representation : images of illness from madness to AIDS. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Main Collection 306.46 G487d [On Library Reserve for the Center for Ethics]

Gilman, Sander L. Picturing health and illness: images of identity and difference. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995
Main Collection 610.9 G487p [On Library Reserve for the Center for Ethics]

Price Herndl, Diane. Invalid women : figuring feminine illness in American fiction and culture, 1840-1940. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
Main Collection 813.009 P945i [On Library Reserve for the Center for Ethics]

Selected Websites

Health Communication Partnership
http://www.hcpartnership.org/index.php

James Madison University: Health Communication Institute
http://web.jmu.edu/healthcom/

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs
http://www.jhuccp.org/index.shtml

Mass Media and Mental Illness: A Literature Review (Canadian Mental Health Association)
http://www.ontario.cmha.ca/content/about_mental_illness/mass_media.asp

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