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Cultural Sutures: Medicine and Media » (1st Edition)

Book cover image of Cultural Sutures: Medicine and Media by Lester D. Friedman

Authors: Lester D. Friedman (Editor), Jonathan Michel Metzl (Contribution by), Arthur L. Caplan (Contribution by), Joseph Turow (Contribution by), Otto F. Wahl
ISBN-13: 9780822332947, ISBN-10: 0822332949
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date Published: June 2004
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Lester D. Friedman

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.

Book Synopsis

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

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction : through the looking glass : medical culture and the media	1
	The pharmaceutical gaze : psychiatry, scopophilia, and psychotropic medication advertising, 1964-1985	15
	Taken to extremes : newspapers and Kevorkian's televised euthanasia incident	36
	Stop the presses : journalistic treatment of mental illness	55
	The nurse-saver and the TV hostess : advertising hospital television, 1950-1970	73
	Exorcising "men in white" on television : an exercise in cultural power	93
	Drive-by medicine : managed care ads on billboards	109
	Frankenflicks : medical monsters in classic horror films	129
	Big boys do cry : empathy in The doctor	149
	Institutional impediments : medical bureaucracies in the movies	166
	Images and healers : a visual history of scientific medicine	197
	From City hospital to ER : the evolution of the television physician	215
	The fat detective : obesity and disability	234
	Dissecting the doctor shows : a content analysis of ER and Chicago hope	244
	Reproductive freedom, revisionist history, restricted cinema : the strange case of Margaret Sanger and Birth control	263
	Continence of the continent : the ideology of disease and hygiene in World War II training films	280
	"Invisible invaders" : the global body in public health films	299
	The medium is the message : documenting the story of Dax Cowart	315
	Technologies transforming health care : X rays, computers, and the internet	333
	The shape of things to come : surgery in the age of medialization	351
	Medicine.com : the internet and the patient-physician relationship	373
	Virtual disability : on the internet, nobody knows you're not a sick puppy	386
	Works cited	399
	Contributors	423
	Index	429