Socializing medicine : health humanities and East Asian media / edited by Pao-chen Tang, Yuqian Yan, and Ling Zhang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tang, Pao-chen, editor.

Yan, Yuqian, editor.

Zhang, Ling (Film researcher), editor.

Series:

Crossings: Asian cinema and media culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health in mass media--Political aspects--East Asia.

Health in mass media.

Health in motion pictures--20th century--Political aspects--East Asia.

Health in motion pictures.

Imperialism and science--East Asia--20th century.

Imperialism and science.

Sociology of disability--East Asia.

Sociology of disability.

Physical Description:

xi, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"In Socializing Medicine, Pao-chan Tang, Yuqian Yan, and Ling Zheng explore the intersections of medicine, health, and East Asian media. Interweaving archival research, audiovisual analyses, and theoretical insights from the emerging field of health humanities, the book reveals the multifaceted ways in which the mass media--from photography and film to television and live streaming--has been deployed as a tool for controlling medicine and health, privileging those with power and authority from the early twentieth century to the present. Adopting anti-colonial and anti-capitalist perspectives, the contributors in this volume challenge the dominant mediations of health against the backdrop of imperialism, Cold War geopolitical tensions, and neoliberal capitalism. Collectively, they advocate for alternative understandings of medical culture through media productions that envision accessible and equitable healthcare practices."--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Introduction / Pao-chan Tang, Yuqian Yan, and Ling Zhang

Medical and media imperialism. Contagious disease and visual media in colonial Korea / Jeehey Kim

Ink on the silver screen : medical culture and poetic voices in Spring on the Small Island / Kathryn M. Tanaka

Deformed bodies in nuclear family rhetoric : the Hiroshima Maidens Project in the early Cold War / Yuki Obayashi.

Socialist medicine in revolution. A battle for life : bacteriophage therapy and socialist medicine in the Great Leap Forward / Lu Liu

From curing to revolutionizing : the politics of disability in Chinese socialist medicine and media / Chao Wang and Yuqian Yan

The mass biopolitics of medicine in socialist Chinese films / Ban Wang.

Precarious ecology and the body. Ecological crisis and pathologies of modernity in the South Korean films Crowded and Zero Woman / Max Balhorn

Beyond locality : Ke Chin-yuan's environmentalist documentary and cultural nativism / Pao-chen Tang.

Digital embodiment in neoliberal capitalism. Live streaming and Present.Perfect. : digital able-bodiedness, liveness, and disabilities / Chang-Min Yu

"The most calming thing you have done on the internet" : healing vlogs and the aesthetics of Li Ziqi / Lilian Kong.

Notes:

Contains bibliographic references (pages 227-253) and index.

ISBN:

9888876813

9789888876815

OCLC:

1456754187