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Handbook of popular culture and biomedicine : knowledge in the life sciences as cultural artefact / Arno Görgen, German Alfonso Nunez, Heiner Fangerau, editors.
Annenberg Library - Reference RA418 .H358 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social medicine.
- Science in popular culture.
- Bioethics.
- Popular culture.
- Social Medicine.
- Popular Culture.
- Medical Subjects:
- Social Medicine.
- Popular Culture.
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 385 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2019]
- Contents:
- Part I, Theories and methods. Knowledge production between popular culture and scientific culture / David A. Kirby
- Cool geeks, dangerous nerds, entrepreneurial scientists and idealistic physicians? : exploring science and medicine in popular culture / Joachim Allgaier
- Biomedicine and bioethics / Heiner Fangerau, Gisela Badura-Lotter
- Advantages and disadvantages of pop-cultural artifacts for exploring bioethical issues / Sandra Shapshay
- Narrative / Hans-Joachim Backe
- Rhetoric of popular culture and representations of biomedicine / Barry Brummett
- Popular culture and the dissemination of knowledge / John Storey
- Images and self-evidence / Michael Martin, Heiner Fangerau
- Visual claim within medical science and popular culture / Angela Schröder ; Part II, Case studies. Medicalized screens from the Cold War to the social web / Kirsten Ostherr
- Insights into insights: visual narratives of medical imaging and intervention technologies and the popular viscourse / Anna L. Roethe
- Audiovisual process of creating evidence - science television imagining the brain / Regina Brückner, Sarah Greifenstein
- Medical history's graphic power in American true-adventure comic books of the 1940s / Bert Hansen
- Medical narratives in the South African novel : case study of Chris Karstens' trilogy "The skin collector" (2012), "The skinner's revenge" (2013) and "Face-off" (2014) / Karen Ferreira-Meyers
- Dis/ability: the construction of norms and normality in popular culture / Simon Ledder, Catharina Münte
- Popular narratives of the cochlear implant / Anna Grebe, Robert Stock, Markus Spöhrer
- Between utopia and dystopia: contemporary art and its conflicting representations of scientific knowledge / German Alfonso Nunez
- With great power comes great changing representations: from radiation to genetics in the origin of Spider-Man / Simon Locke
- Music in Serious Games as healing factor / Yvonne Stingel-Voigt
- Autonomy, heteronomy, and bioethics in 'BioShock' / Arno Görgen, Matthis Krischel
- Scientific enterprise illustrated: abduction, discovery and creativity / Fabrizio Augusto Poltronieri
- Using case studies from popular culture to teach medical physiology / Ronan M. G. Berg ; Part III, Social implications. Consuming, experiencing, and governing: setting the scene for public encounters with biomedicine / Anda Adamsone-Fiskovica
- Bias by medical drama. Reflections of stereotypic images of physicians in the context of contemporary medical dramas / Moritz Köhler [and 3 others]
- Medical, social, and cultural construction and production of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder / Arno Görgen
- Socialist advertising. Health education in East German television / Philipp Osten.
- Notes:
- "Supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9783319906768
- 3319906763
- OCLC:
- 1029883626
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