Cultural Sutures: Medicine and Media

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Cultural Sutures

Medicine and Media

Edited by: Lester D. Friedman
With contributions by: Jonathan Michel Metzl , Arthur L. Caplan , Joseph Turow and Otto F. Wahl

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2004

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About this book

A collection of essays on medicine and media from newspapers through film, television, and computers.

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Lester D. Friedman, Senior Lecturer, teaches film, medical humanities, and literature at Northwestern University. His books include The Jewish Image in American Film; Steven Spielberg: Interviews (coedited with Brent Notbohm); and the British Film Institute book Bonnie and Clyde.

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“This is a book so timely and valuable—even necessary—that the wonder is that it hasn’t already appeared.”—David B. Morris, author of Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age and The Culture of Pain

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Social Sciences Psychology Psychology, other

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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Through the Looking Glass: Medical Culture and the Media
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Lester D. Friedman

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1. Print Media
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The Pharmaceutical Gaze: Psychiatry, Scopophilia, and Psychotropic Medication Advertising, 1964–1985
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Jonathan M. Metzl

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Taken to Extremes: Newspapers and Kevorkian’s Televised Euthanasia Incident
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Arthur L. Caplan and Joseph Turow

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Stop the Presses: Journalistic Treatment of Mental Illness
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Otto F. Wahl

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2. Advertisements
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The Nurse-Saver and the TV Hostess: Advertising Hospital Television, 1950–1970
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Joy V. Fuqua

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Exorcising ‘‘Men in White’’ on Television: An Exercise in Cultural Power
93
Kelly A. Cole

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Drive-By Medicine: Managed Care Ads on Billboards
109
Norbert Goldfield

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3. Fiction Films
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Frankenflicks: Medical Monsters in Classic Horror Films
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Stephanie Brown Clark

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Big Boys Do Cry: Empathy in The Doctor
149
Lucy Fischer

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Institutional Impediments: Medical Bureaucracies in the Movies
166
Marilyn Chandler Mcentyre

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4. Television
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Images and Healers: A Visual History of Scientific Medicine
197
Marc R. Cohen and Audrey Shafer

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From City Hospital to ER: The Evolution of the Television Physician
215
Gregg Vandekieft

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The Fat Detective: Obesity and Disability
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Sander L. Gilman

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Dissecting the Doctor Shows: A Content Analysis of ER and Chicago Hope
244
Gregory Makoul and Limor Peer

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5. Documentaries
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Reproductive Freedom, Revisionist History, Restricted Cinema: The Strange Case of Margaret Sanger and Birth Control
263
Martin F. Norden

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Continence of the Continent: The Ideology of Disease and Hygiene in World War II Training Films
280
Christie Milliken

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‘‘Invisible Invaders’’: The Global Body in Public Health Films
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Kirsten Ostherr

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The Medium Is the Message: Documenting the Story of Dax Cowart
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Therese Jones

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6. Computers
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Technologies Transforming Health Care: X Rays, Computers, and the Internet
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Joel D. Howell

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The Shape of Things to Come: Surgery in the Age of Medialization
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Timothy Lenoir

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Medicine.com: The Internet and the Patient-Physician Relationship
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Faith Mclellan

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Virtual Disability: On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re Not a Sick Puppy
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Tod Chambers

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Works Cited
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Contributors
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Index
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Cultural Sutures

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Reviews

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Through the Looking Glass: Medical Culture and the Media

The Pharmaceutical Gaze: Psychiatry, Scopophilia, and Psychotropic Medication Advertising, 1964–1985

Taken to Extremes: Newspapers and Kevorkian’s Televised Euthanasia Incident

Stop the Presses: Journalistic Treatment of Mental Illness

The Nurse-Saver and the TV Hostess: Advertising Hospital Television, 1950–1970

Exorcising ‘‘Men in White’’ on Television: An Exercise in Cultural Power

Drive-By Medicine: Managed Care Ads on Billboards

Frankenflicks: Medical Monsters in Classic Horror Films

Big Boys Do Cry: Empathy in The Doctor

Institutional Impediments: Medical Bureaucracies in the Movies

Images and Healers: A Visual History of Scientific Medicine

From City Hospital to ER: The Evolution of the Television Physician

The Fat Detective: Obesity and Disability

Dissecting the Doctor Shows: A Content Analysis of ER and Chicago Hope

Reproductive Freedom, Revisionist History, Restricted Cinema: The Strange Case of Margaret Sanger and Birth Control

Continence of the Continent: The Ideology of Disease and Hygiene in World War II Training Films

‘‘Invisible Invaders’’: The Global Body in Public Health Films

The Medium Is the Message: Documenting the Story of Dax Cowart

Technologies Transforming Health Care: X Rays, Computers, and the Internet

The Shape of Things to Come: Surgery in the Age of Medialization

Medicine.com: The Internet and the Patient-Physician Relationship

Virtual Disability: On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re Not a Sick Puppy

Works Cited

Contributors

Index

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