Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Friedman, Lester D.

Description

1. xi, 452 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subject

1. Health in mass media
2. Social medicine
3. Television in health education
4. Journalism, Medical
5. Mass media
6. Attitude to Health
7. Mass Media
8. Ethics, Medical
9. Public Opinion
10. Medical Laboratory Science

Contents

1. Introduction : through the looking glass : medical culture and the media / Lester D. Friedman -- The pharmaceutical gaze : psychiatry, scopophilia, and psychotropic medication advertising, 1964-1985 / Jonathan M. Metzl -- Taken to extremes : newspapers and Kevorkian's televised euthanasia incident / Arthur L. Caplan and Joseph Turow -- Stop the presses : journalistic treatment of mental illness / Otto F. Wahl -- The nurse-saver and the TV hostess : advertising hospital television, 1950-1970 / Joy V. Fuqua -- Exorcising "men in white" on television : an exercise in cultural power / Kelly A. Cole -- Drive-by medicine : managed care ads on billboards / Norbert Goldfield -- Frankenflicks : medical monsters in classic horror films / Stephanie Brown Clark -- Big boys do cry : empathy in The doctor / Lucy Fischer -- Institutional impediments : medical bureaucracies in the movies / Marilyn Chandler McEntyre -- Images and healers : a visual history of scientific medicine / Marc R. Cohen and Audrey Shafer -- From City hospital to ER : the evolution of the television physician / Gregg Vandekieft -- The fat detective : obesity and disability / Sander L. Gilman -- Dissecting the doctor shows : a content analysis of ER and Chicago hope / Gregory Makoul and Limor Peer -- Reproductive freedom, revisionist history, restricted cinema : the strange case of Margaret Sanger and Birth control / Martin F. Norden -- Continence of the continent : the ideology of disease and hygiene in World War II training films / Christie Milliken -- "Invisible invaders" : the global body in public health films / Kirsten Ostherr -- The medium is the message : documenting the story of Dax Cowart / Therese Jones -- Technologies transforming health care : X rays, computers, and the internet / Joel D. Howell -- The shape of things to come : surgery in the age of medialization / Timothy Lenoir -- Medicine.com : the internet and the patient-physician relationship / Faith McLellan -- Virtual disability : on the internet, nobody knows you're not a sick puppy / Tod Chambers.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-422) and index.