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A collection of essays on medicine and media from newspapers through film, television, and computers Demonstrates how pervasively the world of medicine engages and permeates the media that surround us Medicine and the media exist in a unique symbiosis. Increasingly, health-care consumers turn to media sources - from news reports to web sites to TV shows - for information about diseases, treatments, pharmacology, and important health issues. And just as the media scour the medical terrain for news stories and plot lines, those in the health-care industry use the media to publicize legitimate stories and advance particular agendas. The essays in Cultural Sutures illuminate this deeply collaborative process by scrutinizing a broad range of interconnections between medicine and the media in print journalism, advertisements, fiction films, television shows, and documentaries and via computers. Scholars of cinema studies, philosophy, English, sociology, health-care education, women's studies, bioethics, and other fields, the contributors demonstrate how pervasively the world of medicine engages and permeates the media that surround us.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements xiii Introduction: Through the Looking Glass: Medical Culture and the Media / Lester D. Friedman 1 1. Print Media The Pharmaceutical Gaze: Psychiatry, Scropophilia, and Psychotropic Medication Advertising, 1964-1985 / Jonathan M. Metzl 15 Taken to Extremes: Newspapers and Kevorkian’s Televised Euthanasia Incident / Arthur L. Caplan and Joseph Turow 36 Stop the Presses: Journalistic Treatment of Mental Illness / Otto F. Wahl 55 2. Advertisements The Nurse-Saver and the TV Hostess: Advertising Hospital Television, 1950-1970 / Joy V. Fuqua 73 Exorcising “Men in White” on Television: An Exercise in Cultural Power / Kelly A. Cole 93 Drive-By Medicine: Managed Care Ads on Billboards / Norbert Goldfield 109 3. Fiction Films Frankenflicks: Medical Monsters in Classic Horror Films / Stephanie Brown Clark 129 Big Boys Do Cry: Empathy in The Doctor / Lucy Fischer 149 Institutional Impediments: Medical Bureaucracies in the Movies / Marilyn Chandler McEntyre 166 4. Television Images and Healers: A Visual History of Scientific Medicine / Marc R. Cohen and Audrey Shafer 197 From City Hospital to ER: The Evolution of the Television Physician / Gregg Vandekieft 215 The Fat Detective: Obesity and Disability / Sander L. Gilman 234 Dissecting the Doctor Shows: A Content Analysis of ER and Chicago Hope / Gregory Makoul and Limor Peer 244 5. Documentaries Reproductive Freedom, Revisionist History, Restricted Cinema: The Strange Case of Margaret Sanger and Birth Control / Martin F. Norden 263 Continence of the Continent: The Ideology of Disease and Hygiene in World War II Training Films / Christie Milliken 280 “Invisible Invaders”: The Global Body in Public Health Films / Kirsten Ostherr 299 The Medium in the Message: Documenting the Story of Dax Cowart / Therese Jones 315 6. Computers Technologies Transforming Health Care: X Rays, Computers, and the Internet / Joel D. Howell 333 The Shape of Things to Come: Surgery in the Age of Medialization / Timothy Lenior 351 Medicine.com: The Internet and the Patient-Physician Relationship / Faith McClellan 373 Virtual Disability: On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re Not a Sick Puppy / Todd Chambers 386 Works Cited 399 Contributors 423 Index 429

About the Author :
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.

Review :
"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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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780822332565
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Weight: 798 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0822332566
  • Publisher Date: 06 May 2004
  • Binding: Hardback
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Sub Title: Medicine and Media


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