Parliament, Press and Broadcasting

Parliament, Press and Broadcasting

Italian Political Communication and Gender Bias: Press Representations of Men/Women Presidents of the Houses of Parliament (1979, 1994, and 2013)

The study considers mass media communication as intertwined with social norms, as assumed by the perspective of social representations. It explores the Italian press communication by focusing on three pairs of men and women politicians with different political orientations and all serving as presidents of the Houses of Parliament in three legislatures. The article concentrates on five newspaper...

Parliament, Press and Broadcasting

During the past three months Members of Parliament have had before them several Bills dealing with matters directly or indirectly connected with mental health. News of the progress of the Mental Health Bill itself is reported elsewhere in this issue. The Legitimacy Bill, a private members' Bill, was given its second reading on 30.1.59 and was referred to a Standing Committee. The main purpose o...

Parliament, Press and Broadcasting

Discharges from Broadmoor On August 3rd, Mr. Kenneth Robinson asked the Home Secretary what decisions he had made about patients in Broadmoor Hospital whose discharge had been recommended by the Mental Health Review Tribunal to whom applications had been referred by him. Mr. Butler said that in four out of the 88 cases which had so far been reviewed, the Tribunal had advised discharge; in two o...

Parliament, Press and Broadcasting

On February 8th, the Minister of Health announced the composition of the new Committees on Clinical Psychiatry and on the Epideminology of Mental Disorders under the chairmanship respectively of Professor Sir George Pickering and Professor Sir Aubrey Lewis. Each Committee, the Minister said, had appointed working parties to study special aspects of its field, such as the psychopathic personalit...