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Medicine's Moving Pictures
Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television
Edited by Leslie J. Reagan
Edited by Nancy Tomes
Edited by Paula A. Treichler
This groundbreaking 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.
Contributors: Lisa Cartwright, Vanessa Northington Gamble, Rachel Gans-Boriskin, Valerie Hartouni, Susan E. Lederer, John Parascandola, Martin S. Pernick, Leslie J. Reagan, Naomi Rogers, Nancy Tomes, Paula A. Treichler, Joseph Turow
Leslie J. Reagan is an associate professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Nancy Tomes is a professor at Stony Brook University; Paula A. Treichler is a professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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DETAILS
17 b/w illustrations
Size: 9 x 6 in
13 digit ISBN: 9781580462341
Binding: Hardback
First published: 01/Nov/2007
Price: 85.00 USD / 50.00 GBP
Imprint: University of Rochester Press
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History
Subject: History of Science & Medicine
BIC class: AVH
STATUS: Available
Details updated on 18/11/2008
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Reviews
Medicine's Moving Pictures is a welcome contribution in exploring how visual culture has shaped and responded to the changing practice, politics, and promotion of medicine in America. . . [This book] offers a glimpse into the rich and creative scholarship that awaits American historians who venture into the relatively untapped collections of health-related films and television shows produced over a century of America's changing visual and medical culture. --Gregg A. Mitman, University of Wisconsin in THE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY
Of particular interest is the well-documented corporate and political give-and-take regarding how a sensitive medical subject will be treated. --R.D. Arcari, University of Connecticut School of Medicine in Choice April 2008
A consistently illuminating and engaging exploration of medicine's representation in film and television. In the language of Variety, it combines art and box office: a substantive and accessible contribution to cultural and media studies as well as to the history of medicine. -- Charles Rosenberg, Professor of the History of Science and Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences, Harvard University
Film and television representation of health and medicine is neglected, both as an area of historical study and as a research resource. This collection, ranging as it does from wartime public heath films about syphilis to post-war TV doctors, is therefore to be welcomed. Its interdisciplinary approach helps us begin to decode important areas of twentieth-century American cultural history. -- Virginia Berridge, Professor of History, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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