Friedman Cultural Sutures

Medicine and Media
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8553-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 467 Seiten

A collection of essays on medicine and media from newspapers through film, television, and computers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Friedman, Lester D.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Metzl, Jonathan Michel

Caplan, Arthur L.

Turow, Joseph

Wahl, Otto F.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogik: Sachbuch, Ratgeber

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
xiii

Introduction: Through the Looking Glass: Medical Culture and the Media / Lester D. Friedman 1

1. Print Media

The Pharmaceutical Gaze: Psychiatry, Scropophilia, and Psychotropic Medication Advertising, 1964-1985 / Jonathan M. Metzl 15

Taken to Extremes: Newspapers and Kevorkian’s Televised Euthanasia Incident / Arthur L. Caplan and Joseph Turow 36

Stop the Presses: Journalistic Treatment of Mental Illness / Otto F. Wahl 55

2. Advertisements

The Nurse-Saver and the TV Hostess: Advertising Hospital Television, 1950-1970 / Joy V. Fuqua 73

Exorcising “Men in White” on Television: An Exercise in Cultural Power / Kelly A. Cole 93

Drive-By Medicine: Managed Care Ads on Billboards / Norbert Goldfield 109

3. Fiction Films

Frankenflicks: Medical Monsters in Classic Horror Films / Stephanie Brown Clark 129

Big Boys Do Cry: Empathy in The Doctor / Lucy Fischer 149

Institutional Impediments: Medical Bureaucracies in the Movies / Marilyn Chandler McEntyre 166

4. Television

Images and Healers: A Visual History of Scientific Medicine / Marc R. Cohen and Audrey Shafer 197

From City Hospital to ER: The Evolution of the Television Physician / Gregg Vandekieft 215

The Fat Detective: Obesity and Disability / Sander L. Gilman 234

Dissecting the Doctor Shows: A Content Analysis of ER and Chicago Hope / Gregory Makoul and Limor Peer 244

5. Documentaries

Reproductive Freedom, Revisionist History, Restricted Cinema: The Strange Case of Margaret Sanger and Birth Control / Martin F. Norden 263

Continence of the Continent: The Ideology of Disease and Hygiene in World War II Training Films / Christie Milliken 280

“Invisible Invaders”: The Global Body in Public Health Films / Kirsten Ostherr 299

The Medium in the Message: Documenting the Story of Dax Cowart / Therese Jones 315

6. Computers

Technologies Transforming Health Care: X Rays, Computers, and the Internet / Joel D. Howell 333

The Shape of Things to Come: Surgery in the Age of Medialization / Timothy Lenior 351

Medicine.com: The Internet and the Patient-Physician Relationship / Faith McClellan 373

Virtual Disability: On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re Not a Sick Puppy / Todd Chambers 386

Works Cited 399

Contributors 423

Index 429

Über Autor(innen)

Lester D. Friedman, Senior Lecturer, teaches film, medical humanities, and literature at Northwestern University. His books include The Jewish Image in American Film; Steven Spielberg: Interviews (coedited with Brent Notbohm); and the British Film Institute book Bonnie and Clyde.