Cultural sutures medicine and media /

Cultural sutures medicine and media / [electronic resource] : edited by Lester D. Friedman. - Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2004. - xi, 452 p. : ill. - e-Duke books scholarly collection. .

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

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 / Lester D. Friedman -- Jonathan M. Metzl -- Arthur L. Caplan and Joseph Turow -- Otto F. Wahl -- Joy V. Fuqua -- Kelly A. Cole -- Norbert Goldfield -- Stephanie Brown Clark -- Lucy Fischer -- Marilyn Chandler McEntyre -- Marc R. Cohen and Audrey Shafer -- Gregg VandeKieft -- 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 / Sander L. Gilman -- Gregory Makoul and Limor Peer -- Martin F. Norden -- Christie Milliken -- Kirsten Ostherr -- Therese Jones -- Joel D. Howell -- Timothy Lenoir -- Faith McLellan -- Tod Chambers.


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Health in mass media.
Social medicine.
Television in health education.
Journalism, Medical.
Mass media.


Electronic books.

RA440.5 / .C835 2004