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Cultural Sutures
Medicine and Media
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Edited by:
Lester D. Friedman
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With contributions by:
Jonathan Michel Metzl
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English
Published/Copyright:
2004
About this book
A collection of essays on medicine and media from newspapers through film, television, and computers.
Author / Editor information
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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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
1 - 1. Print Media
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The Pharmaceutical Gaze: Psychiatry, Scopophilia, and Psychotropic Medication Advertising, 1964–1985
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Taken to Extremes: Newspapers and Kevorkian’s Televised Euthanasia Incident
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Stop the Presses: Journalistic Treatment of Mental Illness
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The Nurse-Saver and the TV Hostess: Advertising Hospital Television, 1950–1970
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Exorcising ‘‘Men in White’’ on Television: An Exercise in Cultural Power
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Drive-By Medicine: Managed Care Ads on Billboards
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Frankenflicks: Medical Monsters in Classic Horror Films
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Big Boys Do Cry: Empathy in The Doctor
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Institutional Impediments: Medical Bureaucracies in the Movies
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Images and Healers: A Visual History of Scientific Medicine
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From City Hospital to ER: The Evolution of the Television Physician
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The Fat Detective: Obesity and Disability
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Dissecting the Doctor Shows: A Content Analysis of ER and Chicago Hope
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Reproductive Freedom, Revisionist History, Restricted Cinema: The Strange Case of Margaret Sanger and Birth Control
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Continence of the Continent: The Ideology of Disease and Hygiene in World War II Training Films
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‘‘Invisible Invaders’’: The Global Body in Public Health Films
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The Medium Is the Message: Documenting the Story of Dax Cowart
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Technologies Transforming Health Care: X Rays, Computers, and the Internet
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The Shape of Things to Come: Surgery in the Age of Medialization
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Medicine.com: The Internet and the Patient-Physician Relationship
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Virtual Disability: On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re Not a Sick Puppy
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Works Cited
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Contributors
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Index
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
May 6, 2004
eBook ISBN:
9780822385530
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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472
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82 illustrations
