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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.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.P44 M42 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- 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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