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Medicine's moving pictures : medicine, health, and bodies in American film and television / edited by Leslie J. Reagan, Nancy Tomes, and Paula A. Treichler.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Reagan, Leslie J.
Tomes, Nancy, 1952-
Treichler, Paula A.
Series:
Rochester studies in medical history 1526-2715
Rochester studies in medical history, 1526-2715
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Medical personnel in motion pictures.
Medical personnel on television.
Medicine in motion pictures.
Medicine on television.
Motion pictures--United States.
Motion pictures.
United States.
Television programs--United States.
Television programs.
Motion Pictures--history.
Public Health.
Culture.
History, 20th Century.
Physicians--history.
Television--history.
Medical Subjects:
Motion Pictures--history.
United States.
Public Health.
Culture.
History, 20th Century.
Physicians--history.
Television--history.
Physical Description:
vi, 343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Rochester, N.Y. : University of Rochester Press, 2007.
Summary:
Original essays by leading media scholars and historians of medicine that explore the rich history of health-related films.
Contents:
More than illustrations: early twentieth-century health films as contributors to the histories of medicine and of motion pictures / Martin S. Pernick
Celebrity diseases / Nancy Tomes
Syphilis at the cinema: medicine and morals in VD films of the U.S. Public Health Service in World War II / John Parascandola
Medicine, popular culture, and the power of narrative: the HIV/AIDS storyline on General Hospital / Paula A. Treichler
Mandy (1952): on voice and listening in the (deaf) maternal melodrama / Lisa Cartwright
Projecting breast cancer: self-examination films and the making of a new cultural practice / Leslie J. Reagan
American medicine and the politics of filmmaking: Sister Kenny (RKO, 1946) / Naomi Rogers
Passing or passive: postwar Hollywood images of Black Physicians / Vanessa Northington Gamble
From expert in action to existential angst: a half-century of television doctors / Joseph Turow and Rachel Gans-Boriskin
Hollywood and human experimentation: representing medical research in popular film / Susan E. Lederer
Technicolor technoscience: rescripting the future / Valerie Hartouni.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [321]-323) and index.
ISBN:
9781580462341
1580462340
OCLC:
122499985

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