While I hope to use many written texts in my analysis about illness and the "sick role," I think it could be interesting to look at commericials about illness and see what sorts of social constructions are at work within them. Here are a few commericals I found:
Two from the National Alliance on Mental Illness -
http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7KVc/national-alliance-on-mental-illness-nami-listen
http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7770/nami-monuments (this one is interesting because it shows national monuments and says that these people "beat mental illness" and the comment at the bottom of the article points out that many of the people depicted were murdered...)
and another is a Super Bowl Chevy commercial from last year that focused on cancer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vhMpXMPvdU
I'm not sure if I will actually use these commercials specifically, but I think they can help me decide on a specific type of commercial/representation of illness to focus on for a section of my project.
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