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" Medicine's moving pictures : "
edited by Leslie J. Reagan, Nancy Tomes, and Paula A. Treichler.
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963954
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b718324
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Medicine's moving pictures : : medicine, health, and bodies in American film and television /\ edited by Leslie J. Reagan, Nancy Tomes, and Paula A. Treichler.
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Rochester, N.Y. :: University of Rochester Press,, 2007.
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Rochester studies in medical history,
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vi, 343 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm.
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1580462340
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: 1580463061
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: 9781580463065
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-323) and index.
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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.
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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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Medical personnel in motion pictures.
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Medical personnel on television.
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Medicine in motion pictures.
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Medicine on television.
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Motion pictures-- United States.
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Television programs-- United States.
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Fernsehen-- Motiv-- Medizin-- USA.
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Fernsehen.
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Film-- Motiv-- Medizin-- USA.
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Film.
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Gesundheit
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Gesundheit.
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Medical personnel in motion pictures.
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Medical personnel on television.
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Medicine in motion pictures.
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Medicine on television.
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Medizin
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Medizin-- Motiv-- Fernsehen-- USA.
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Medizin-- Motiv-- Film-- USA.
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Medizin.
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Motion pictures.
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Motiv (Film)
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Television programs.
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Fernsehen.
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Film.
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Motion Pictures-- history.
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Public Health.
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Culture.
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History, 20th Century.
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Physicians-- history.
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Television-- history.
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United States.
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United States.
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USA.
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USA.
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| Dewey Classification
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791.43/6561
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PN1995.9.P44M42 2007
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2007 M-433
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WA 11 AA1M489 2007
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AP 50300 M491rvk
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AP 50300 M491.rvk
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Reagan, Leslie J.
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Tomes, Nancy,1952-
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Treichler, Paula A.
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| Parallel Title
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Medicine, health, and bodies in American film and television
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