Gender display in Scandinavian and American advertising for antidepressants.
This study examines whether depiction of users of antidepressants in advertisements for antidepressants in the 1995 issues of the major medical journal in each of Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden differs from that in the American Journal of Psychiatry. The results show that the people shown in the Danish, Finnish, and Norwegian journals are predominantly women, whereas depiction of users in the American and Swedish advertising is predominantly of couples. The portrayals in the 1995 advertising are of antidepressants as female gendered; a feature that was not seen in advertising for psychotropic drugs in the Nordic countries in the 1980s.
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Department of Sociology, Abo Akademi University, Finland.
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D000329:Advertising; D001741:Black or African American; D000928:Antidepressive Agents; D044383:Black People; D003718:Denmark; D005260:Female; D005387:Finland; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009664:Norway; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs; D044469:Racial Groups; D012723:Sex; D012737:Sex Factors; D013548:Sweden; D014481:United States; D044465:White People
D000928:Antidepressive Agents; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs