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Medicine's moving pictures : medicine, health, and bodies in American film and television

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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.
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Rochester, N.Y. : University of Rochester Press, 2007.
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  • Reagan, Leslie J.
  • Tomes, Nancy, 1952-
  • Treichler, Paula A.
Description
vi, 343 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
This book argues that health and medical media, with their unique goals and production values, constitute a rich cultural and historical archive and deserve greater scholarly attention. Original essays by leading media scholars and historians of medicine demonstrate that Americans throughout the twentieth century have learned about health, disease, medicine, and the human body from movies. Heroic doctors and patients fighting dread diseases have thrilled and moved audiences everywhere; amid changing media formats, medicine's moving pictures continue to educate, entertain, and help us understand the body's journey through life. Perennially popular, health and medical media are also complex texts reflecting many interests and constituencies including, notably, the U.S. medical profession, which has often sought, if not always successfully, to influence content, circulation, and meaning. Medicine's Moving Pictures makes clear that health and medical media representations are "more than illustrations," shows their power to shape health perceptions, practices, and policies, and identifies their social, cultural, and historical contexts.
Series Statement
Rochester studies in medical history, 1526-2715
Uniform Title
Rochester studies in medical history.
Alternative Title
Medicine, health, and bodies in American film and television
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-323) and index.
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.
Call Number
MFL 18-2657
ISBN
  • 9781580462341
  • 9781580463065
  • 1580463061
  • 1580462340
LCCN
2007014113
OCLC
122499985
Title
Medicine's moving pictures : medicine, health, and bodies in American film and television / edited by Leslie J. Reagan, Nancy Tomes, and Paula A. Treichler.
Imprint
Rochester, N.Y. : University of Rochester Press, 2007.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Rochester studies in medical history, 1526-2715
Rochester studies in medical history.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-323) and index.
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Reagan, Leslie J.
Tomes, Nancy, 1952-
Treichler, Paula A.
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Online version: Medicine's moving pictures. Rochester, N.Y. : University of Rochester Press, 2007 (OCoLC)608024383
Research Call Number
MFL 18-2657
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