Medicine's moving pictures : medicine, health, and bodies in American film and television /: medicine, health, and bodies in American film and television. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Leslie J. Reagan, Nancy Tomes, and Paula A. Treichler.
• Other Names: Reagan, Leslie J; Tomes, Nancy, 1952-; Treichler, Paula A
• Contents: More than illustrations: early twentieth-century health films as contributors to the histories of medicine and of motion pictures / Martin S. Pernick -- Celebrity diseases / Nancy Tomes -- Syphilis at the cinema: medicine and morals in VD films of the U.S. Public Health Service in World War II / John Parascandola -- Medicine, popular culture, and the power of narrative: the HIV/AIDS storyline on General Hospital / Paula A. Treichler -- Mandy (1952): on voice and listening in the (deaf) maternal melodrama / Lisa Cartwright -- Projecting breast cancer: self-examination films and the making of a new cultural practice / Leslie J. Reagan -- American medicine and the politics of filmmaking: Sister Kenny (RKO, 1946) / Naomi Rogers -- Passing or passive: postwar Hollywood images of Black Physicians / Vanessa Northington Gamble -- From expert in action to existential angst: a half-century of television doctors / Joseph Turow and Rachel Gans-Boriskin -- Hollywood and human experimentation: representing medical research in popular film / Susan E. Lederer --Technicolor technoscience: rescripting the future / Valerie Hartouni.
• Publisher Details: Rochester, N.Y : University of Rochester Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 343 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 791.43/6561; Medical personnel in motion pictures; Medical personnel on television; Medicine in motion pictures; Medicine on television; Motion pictures -- United States; Television programs -- United States; PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference; Medical personnel in motion pictures; Medical personnel on television; Medicine in motion pictures; Medicine on television; Motion pictures; Television programs; Medizin -- Motiv -- Film -- USA; Film -- Motiv -- Medizin -- USA; Medizin -- Motiv -- Fernsehen -- USA; Fernsehen -- Motiv -- Medizin -- USA; Medizin; Motiv (Film); Gesundheit; Film; Fernsehen; Gesundheit; Medizin; Motion Pictures -- history; Public Health; Culture; History, 20th Century; Physicians -- history; Television -- history; Film; Fernsehen; United States; USA; USA; United States; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781580466981; 1580466982
• Related ISBNs: 9781580462341; 9781580463065; 1580463061; 1580462340
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-323) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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