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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A collection of essays on medicine and media from newspapers through film, television, and computers. Zusammenfassung A collection of essays on medicine and media from newspapers through film! television! and computers Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements>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...
