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Cultural sutures medicine and media
Title:
Cultural sutures medicine and media
Author:
Friedman, Lester D.
Publication Information:
Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2004.
Physical Description:
xi, 452 p. : ill.
Series:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents:
Through the looking glass : medical culture and the media / The pharmaceutical gaze : psychiatry, scopophilia, and psychotropic medication advertising, 1964-1985 / Taken to extremes : newspapers and Kevorkian's televised euthanasia incident / Stop the presses : journalistic treatment of mental illness / The nurse-saver and the TV hostess : advertising hospital television, 1950-1970 / Exorcising "men in white" on television : an exercise in cultural power / Drive-by medicine : managed care ads on billboards / Frankenflicks : medical monsters in classic horror films / Big boys do cry : empathy in the doctor / Institutional impediments : medical bureaucracies in the movies / Images and healers : a visual history of scientific medicine / From city hospital to ER : the evolution of the television physician

The fat detective : obesity and disability / Dissecting the doctor shows : a content analysis of ER and Chicago hope / Reproductive freedom, revisionist history, restricted cinema : the strange case of Margaret Sanger and birth control / Continence of the continent : the ideology of disease and hygiene in World War II training films / "Invisible invaders" : the global body in public health films / The medium is the message : documenting the story of Dax Cowart / Technologies transforming health care : X-rays, computers, and the internet / The shape of things to come : surgery in the age of medialization / Medicine.com : the internet and the patient-physician relationship / Virtual disability : on the internet, nobody knows you're not a sick puppy
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