Cultural sutures : medicine and media /
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| Imprint: | Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2004. |
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| Description: | xi, 452 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5200668 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Through the Looking Glass: Medical Culture and the Media
- 1.. Print 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
- 2.. Advertisements
- 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
- 3.. Fiction Films
- Frankenflicks: Medical Monsters in Classic Horror Films
- Big Boys Do Cry: Empathy in The Doctor
- Institutional Impediments: Medical Bureaucracies in the Movies
- 4.. Television
- 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
- 5.. Documentaries
- 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
- 6.. Computers
- 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
- Works Cited
- Contributors
- Index
