Kirsten Ostherr

Medical Visions

Producing the Patient Through Film, Television, and Imaging Technologies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores 120 years of medical image-making to explain how visual representations came to play a central role in medical education and practice. She demonstrates how medical images acquire cultural meaning and influence, shaping professional and popular understandings of health and disease.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780199737253
• ISBN-10: 0199737258
• Artikelnr.: 36521698

Autorenporträt

Kirsten Ostherr is an Associate Professor of English at Rice University. She is author of Cinematic Prophylaxis: Globalization and Contagion in the Discourse of World Health.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Medical Ways of Seeing
* Chapter One: Visual Education, Health Communication, and Scientific
Filmmaking in the Early Twentieth Century
* Chapter Two: "The Entire Medical Profession Is Becoming 'Film
Conscious'": How Cinema Became Part of Medical Education
* Chapter Three: "The Disruption of Medical Education throughout the
World": Global Networks for Medical Media in the Postwar Era
* Chapter Four: From the Avant-Garde to Experimental Television:
Mid-Century Technologies of Medical Perception
* Chapter Five: Medical Relevance and Public Relations: How Cinéma
Vérité Became the Video News Release
* Chapter Six: Medical Reality TV, Social Media, and the Networked
Patient
* Conclusion: Ten Lessons for the Future of Medical Media
* Bibliography