Cultural Sutures (eBook, PDF)

Medicine and Media
Redaktion: Lester D. Friedman, Friedman

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Produktbeschreibung

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 delineate this deeply collaborative process by scrutinizing a broad range of interconnections between medicine and the media in print journalism, advertisements, fiction films, television shows, documentaries, and computer technology.In this volume, scholars of cinema studies, philosophy, English, sociology, health-care education, women's studies, bioethics, and other fields demonstrate how the world of medicine engages and permeates the media that surround us. Whether examining the press coverage of the Jack Kevorkian-euthanasia controversy; pondering questions about accessibility, accountability, and professionalism raised by such films as Awakenings, The Doctor, and Lorenzo's Oil; analyzing the depiction of doctors, patients, and medicine on E.R. and Chicago Hope; or considering the ways in which digital technologies have redefined the medical body, these essays are consistently illuminating and provocative.Contributors. Arthur Caplan, Tod Chambers, Stephanie Clark-Brown, Marc R. Cohen, Kelly A. Cole, Lucy Fischer, Lester D. Friedman, Joy V. Fuqua, Sander L. Gilman, Norbert Goldfield, Joel Howell, Therese Jones, Timothy Lenoir, Gregory Makoul, Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Faith McLellan, Jonathan M. Metzl, Christie Milliken, Martin F. Norden, Kirsten Ostherr, Limor Peer, Audrey Shafer, Joseph Turow, Greg VandeKieft, Otto F. Wahl

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 467
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822385530
• Artikelnr.: 54933560

Autorenporträt

Lester D. Friedman, ed.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
> 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