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Title

Cultural sutures : medicine and media / edited by Lester D. Friedman.

Publication

Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2004.

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Additional Authors

Friedman, Lester D.

Description

xi, 452 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Health in mass media
• Social medicine
• Television in health education
• Journalism, Medical
• Mass media

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-422) and index.

Contents

• Introduction: 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.

Call Number

JFE 05-10821

ISBN

• 0822332566 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0822332949 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2003024988

OCLC

53476863

Title

Cultural sutures : medicine and media / edited by Lester D. Friedman.

Imprint

Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2004.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-422) and index.

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Added Author

Friedman, Lester D.

Research Call Number

JFE 05-10821