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Cultural sutures : medicine and media / edited by Lester D. Friedman.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health in mass media.
- Social medicine.
- Television in health education.
- Journalism, Medical.
- Mass media.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (468 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A collection of essays on medicine and media from newspapers through film, television, and computers.
- Contents:
- Through the looking glass : medical culture and the media / Lester D. Friedman
- The pharmaceutical gaze : psychiatry, scopophilia, and psychotropic medication advertising, 1964-1985 / Jonathan M. Metzl
- Taken to extremes : newspapers and Kevorkian's televised euthanasia incident / Arthur L. Caplan and Joseph Turow
- Stop the presses : journalistic treatment of mental illness / Otto F. Wahl
- The nurse-saver and the TV hostess : advertising hospital television, 1950-1970 / Joy V. Fuqua
- Exorcising "men in white" on television : an exercise in cultural power / Kelly A. Cole
- Drive-by medicine : managed care ads on billboards / Norbert Goldfield
- Frankenflicks : medical monsters in classic horror films / Stephanie Brown Clark
- Big boys do cry : empathy in the doctor / Lucy Fischer
- Institutional impediments : medical bureaucracies in the movies / Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
- Images and healers : a visual history of scientific medicine / Marc R. Cohen and Audrey Shafer
- From city hospital to ER : the evolution of the television physician / Gregg VandeKieft
- The fat detective : obesity and disability / Sander L. Gilman
- Dissecting the doctor shows : a content analysis of ER and Chicago hope / Gregory Makoul and Limor Peer
- Reproductive freedom, revisionist history, restricted cinema : the strange case of Margaret Sanger and birth control / Martin F. Norden
- Continence of the continent : the ideology of disease and hygiene in World War II training films / Christie Milliken
- "Invisible invaders" : the global body in public health films / Kirsten Ostherr
- The medium is the message : documenting the story of Dax Cowart / Therese Jones
- Technologies transforming health care : X-rays, computers, and the internet / Joel D. Howell
- The shape of things to come : surgery in the age of medialization / Timothy Lenoir
- Medicine.com : the internet and the patient-physician relationship / Faith McLellan
- Virtual disability : on the internet, nobody knows you're not a sick puppy / Tod Chambers.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-422) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-02374-1
- 9786613023742
- 0-8223-8553-8
- OCLC:
- 645396995
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