Medicine's Moving Pictures

by Reagan, Leslie J.

• ISBN13: 9781580462341
• ISBN10: 1580462340
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-01
• Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER PRESS

Summary

Original essays by leading media scholars and historians of medicine that explore the rich history of health-related films.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television	p. 1
An Emerging Genre
More than Illustrations: Early Twentieth-Century Health Films as Contributors to the Histories of Medicine and of Motion Pictures	p. 19
Celebrity Diseases	p. 36
Educational Entertainment, Entertaining Education
Syphilis at the Cinema: Medicine and Morals in VD Films of the U.S. Public Health Service in World War II	p. 71
Medicine, Popular Culture, and the Power of Narrative: The HIV/AIDS Storyline on General Hospital	p. 93
Mandy (1952): On Voice and Listening in the (Deaf) Maternal Melodrama	p. 133
Projecting Breast Cancer: Self-Examination Films and the Making of a New Cultural Practice	p. 163
Defining Authenticity, Exercising Authority
American Medicine and the Politics of Filmmaking: Sister Kenny (RKO, 1946)	p. 199
Passing or Passive: Postwar Hollywood Images of Black Physicians	p. 239
From Expert in Action to Existential Angst: A Half Century of Television Doctors	p. 263
Hollywood and Human Experimentation: Representing Medical Research in Popular Film	p. 282
Technicolor Technoscience: Rescripting the Future	p. 307
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 321
List of Contributors	p. 325
Index	p. 329
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