{"product_id":"cultural-sutures-9780822332947","title":"Cultural Sutures","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA collection of essays on medicine and media from newspapers through film, television, and computers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a book so timely and valuable—even necessary—that the wonder is that it hasn’t already appeared.”—David B. Morris, author of \u003ci\u003eIllness and Culture in the Postmodern Age \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Culture of Pain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e xiii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Through the Looking Glass: Medical Culture and the Media \/ Lester D. Friedman 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Print Media\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Pharmaceutical Gaze: Psychiatry, Scropophilia, and Psychotropic Medication Advertising, 1964-1985 \/ Jonathan M. Metzl 15\u003cbr\u003e Taken to Extremes: Newspapers and Kevorkian’s Televised Euthanasia Incident \/ Arthur L. Caplan and Joseph Turow 36\u003cbr\u003e Stop the Presses: Journalistic Treatment of Mental Illness \/ Otto F. Wahl 55\u003cbr\u003e 2. Advertisements \u003cbr\u003e The Nurse-Saver and the TV Hostess: Advertising Hospital Television, 1950-1970 \/ Joy V. Fuqua 73\u003cbr\u003e Exorcising “Men in White” on Television: An Exercise in Cultural Power \/ Kelly A. Cole 93\u003cbr\u003e Drive-By Medicine: Managed Care Ads on Billboards \/ Norbert Goldfield 109\u003cbr\u003e 3. Fiction Films \u003cbr\u003e Frankenflicks: Medical Monsters in Classic Horror Films \/ Stephanie Brown Clark 129\u003cbr\u003e Big Boys Do Cry: Empathy in \u003ci\u003eThe Doctor\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Lucy Fischer 149\u003cbr\u003e Institutional Impediments: Medical Bureaucracies in the Movies \/ Marilyn Chandler McEntyre 166\u003cbr\u003e 4. Television \u003cbr\u003e Images and Healers: A Visual History of Scientific Medicine \/ Marc R. Cohen and Audrey Shafer 197\u003cbr\u003e From \u003ci\u003eCity Hospital \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003eER\u003c\/i\u003e: The Evolution of the Television Physician \/ Gregg Vandekieft 215\u003cbr\u003e The Fat Detective: Obesity and Disability \/ Sander L. Gilman 234\u003cbr\u003e Dissecting the Doctor Shows: A Content Analysis of \u003ci\u003eER\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eChicago Hope \u003c\/i\u003e\/ Gregory Makoul and Limor Peer 244\u003cbr\u003e 5. Documentaries \u003cbr\u003e Reproductive Freedom, Revisionist History, Restricted Cinema: The Strange Case of Margaret Sanger and \u003ci\u003eBirth Control \u003c\/i\u003e\/ Martin F. Norden 263\u003cbr\u003e Continence of the Continent: The Ideology of Disease and Hygiene in World War II Training Films \/ Christie Milliken 280\u003cbr\u003e “Invisible Invaders”: The Global Body in Public Health Films \/ Kirsten Ostherr 299\u003cbr\u003e The Medium in the Message: Documenting the Story of Dax Cowart \/ Therese Jones 315\u003cbr\u003e 6. Computers \u003cbr\u003e Technologies Transforming Health Care: X Rays, Computers, and the Internet \/ Joel D. Howell 333\u003cbr\u003e The Shape of Things to Come: Surgery in the Age of Medialization \/ Timothy Lenior 351\u003cbr\u003e Medicine.com: The Internet and the Patient-Physician Relationship \/ Faith McClellan 373\u003cbr\u003e Virtual Disability: On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re Not a Sick Puppy \/ Todd Chambers 386\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited 399\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 423\u003cbr\u003e Index 429","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406035132759,"sku":"9780822332947","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822332947.jpg?v=1730494319","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cultural-sutures-9780822332947","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}