This is not how cancer looks: Celebrity diagnosis and death in the tabloid media

Journalism

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 237-251

  Ashton, Daniel ^a   Feasey, Rebecca ^a  

^a BATH SPA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audiences; celebrity gossip; cervical cancer; focus groups; Jade Goody; OK! magazine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892497239     PISSN: 14648849     EISSN: 17413001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464884913488726     Document Type: Article

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