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Cultural sutures : medicine and media
- 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 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Subject
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0822332566 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0822332949 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2003024988
- OCLC
- ocm53476863
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries