Medicine's Moving Pictures
Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television (Rochester Studies in Medical History)
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Contributions
- Leslie J. Reagan (Editor) - Contributor
- Nancy Tomes (Editor) - Contributor
- Paula A. Treichler (Editor) - Contributor
Publication
2007-11-01 - University of Rochester Press
Language
English
Word Count
85,750 words, Guess
Page Count
343 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivemedicinesmovingp0000unse
- ISBN-101580462340
- ISBN-139781580462341
- Goodreads560150
- Library of Congress Control Number2007014113
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number122499985
- Better World Books9781580462341
- Open LibraryOL12276435M
Classifications
- LCCPN1995.9.P44M42 2007
- LCCPN1995.9.P44 M42 2007
Description
This 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 diseases have 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 medical media 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, and historical contexts.
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