Medicine's Moving Pictures - Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television

Original essays by leading media scholars and historians of medicine that explore the rich history of health-related films.

List of contents

More than Illustrations: Early Twentieth-Century Health Films as Contributors to the Histories of Medicine - Martin 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 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 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 - Rachel Gans-Boriskin and Joseph Turrow
Hollywood and Human Experimentation: Representing Medical Research in Popular Film - Susan Lederer
Technicolor Technoscience: Rescripting the Future - Valerie Hartouni

Product details

• Authors: Leslie J. Reagan
• Assisted by: Leslie J Reagan (Editor), Leslie J. Reagan (Editor), Nancy Tomes (Editor), Paula Treichler (Editor), Paula A. Treichler (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2008
• EAN: 9781580463065
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-306-5
• No. of pages: 353
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 590 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in Medical H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General