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Original essays by leading media scholars and historians of medicine that explore the rich history of health-related films.
This groundbreaking book argues that health and medical media, with their unique goals and production values, constitute a rich cultural and historical archive and deserve greater scholarly attention. Original essays by leading media scholars and historians of medicine demonstrate that Americans throughout the twentieth century have learned about health, disease, medicine, and the human body from movies. Heroic doctors and patients fighting dread diseaseshave thrilled and moved audiences everywhere; amid changing media formats, medicine's moving pictures continue to educate, entertain, and help us understand the body's journey through life. Perennially popular, health and medicalmedia are also complex texts reflecting many interests and constituencies including, notably, the U.S. medical profession, which has often sought, if not always successfully, to influence content, circulation, and meaning. Medicine's Moving Pictures makes clear that health and medical media representations are "more than illustrations," shows their power to shape health perceptions, practices, and policies, and identifies their social, cultural, andhistorical contexts.
Contributors: Lisa Cartwright, Vanessa Northington Gamble, Rachel Gans-Boriskin, Valerie Hartouni, Susan E. Lederer, John Parascandola, Martin S. Pernick, Leslie J. Reagan, Naomi Rogers, Nancy Tomes, Paula A. Treichler, Joseph Turow
Leslie J. Reagan is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Nancy Tomes is a Professor at Stony Brook University; Paula A. Treichler is a Professor atthe University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
This groundbreaking book argues that health and medical media, with their unique goals and production values, constitute a rich cultural and historical archive and deserve greater scholarly attention. Original essays by leading media scholars and historians of medicine demonstrate that Americans throughout the twentieth century have learned about health, disease, medicine, and the human body from movies. Heroic doctors and patients fighting dread diseaseshave thrilled and moved audiences everywhere; amid changing media formats, medicine's moving pictures continue to educate, entertain, and help us understand the body's journey through life. Perennially popular, health and medicalmedia are also complex texts reflecting many interests and constituencies including, notably, the U.S. medical profession, which has often sought, if not always successfully, to influence content, circulation, and meaning. Medicine's Moving Pictures makes clear that health and medical media representations are "more than illustrations," shows their power to shape health perceptions, practices, and policies, and identifies their social, cultural, andhistorical contexts.
Contributors: Lisa Cartwright, Vanessa Northington Gamble, Rachel Gans-Boriskin, Valerie Hartouni, Susan E. Lederer, John Parascandola, Martin S. Pernick, Leslie J. Reagan, Naomi Rogers, Nancy Tomes, Paula A. Treichler, Joseph Turow
Leslie J. Reagan is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Nancy Tomes is a Professor at Stony Brook University; Paula A. Treichler is a Professor atthe University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Price: $39.95
Pages: 353
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: University of Rochester Press
Publication Date:
01 December 2008
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781580463065
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Films, cinema
This collection will be indispensable to scholars.
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
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