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medicine and media

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Cultural Sutures: Medicine and Media
May 2004, Duke University Press
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2004, Duke University Press
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May 2004, Duke University Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction: through the looking glass: medical culture and the media / Lester D. Friedman
The pharmaceutical gaze: psychiatry, scopophilia, and psychotropic medication advertising, 1964-1985 / Jonathan M. Metzl
Taken to extremes: newspapers and Kevorkian's televised euthanasia incident / Arthur L. Caplan and Joseph Turow
Stop the presses: journalistic treatment of mental illness / Otto F. Wahl
The nurse-saver and the TV hostess: advertising hospital television, 1950-1970 / Joy V. Fuqua
Exorcising "men in white" on television: an exercise in cultural power / Kelly A. Cole
Drive-by medicine: managed care ads on billboards / Norbert Goldfield
Frankenflicks: medical monsters in classic horror films / Stephanie Brown Clark
Big boys do cry: empathy in The Doctor / Lucy Fischer
Institutional impediments: medical bureaucracies in the movies / Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
Images and healers: a visual history of scientific medicine / Marc R. Cohen and Audrey Shafer
From City Hospital to ER: the evolution of the television physician / Gregg VandeKieft
The fat detective: obesity and disability / Sander L. Gilman
Dissecting the doctor shows: a content analysis of ER and Chicago Hope / Gregory Makoul and Limor Peer
Reproductive freedom, revisionist history, restricted cinema: the strange case of Margaret Sanger and birth control / Martin F. Norden
Continence of the continent: the ideology of disease and hygiene in World War II training films / Christie Milliken
"Invisible invaders": the global body in public health films / Kirsten Ostherr
The medium is the message: documenting the story of Dax Cowart / Therese Jones
Technologies transforming health care: X-rays, computers, and the internet / Joel D. Howell
The shape of things to come: surgery in the age of medialization / Timothy Lenoir
Medicine.com: the internet and the patient-physician relationship / Faith McLellan
Virtual disability: on the internet, nobody knows you're not a sick puppy / Tod Chambers.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-422) and index.

Published in
Durham, N.C

Classifications

Library of Congress
RA440.5 .C835 2004, RA440.5.C835 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 452 p. :
Number of pages
452

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL15565208M
Internet Archive
culturalsuturesm0000unse
ISBN 10
0822332566, 0822332949
LCCN
2003024988
OCLC/WorldCat
53476863
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2492681
276253

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