Cultural sutures : medicine and media / / edited by Lester D. Friedman.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Friedman, Lester D.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: e-Duke books scholarly collection.
• Physical Description: xi, 452 p. :; ill.
• Other title: Through the looking glass : medical culture and the media /; The pharmaceutical gaze : psychiatry, scopophilia, and psychotropic medication advertising, 1964-1985 /; Taken to extremes : newspapers and Kevorkian's televised euthanasia incident /; Stop the presses : journalistic treatment of mental illness /; The nurse-saver and the TV hostess : advertising hospital television, 1950-1970 /; Exorcising "men in white" on television : an exercise in cultural power /; Drive-by medicine : managed care ads on billboards /; Frankenflicks : medical monsters in classic horror films /; Big boys do cry : empathy in the doctor /; Institutional impediments : medical bureaucracies in the movies /; Images and healers : a visual history of scientific medicine /; From city hospital to ER : the evolution of the television physician /; The fat detective : obesity and disability /; Dissecting the doctor shows : a content analysis of ER and Chicago hope /; Reproductive freedom, revisionist history, restricted cinema : the strange case of Margaret Sanger and birth control /; Continence of the continent : the ideology of disease and hygiene in World War II training films /; "Invisible invaders" : the global body in public health films /; The medium is the message : documenting the story of Dax Cowart /; Technologies transforming health care : X-rays, computers, and the internet /; The shape of things to come : surgery in the age of medialization /; Medicine.com : the internet and the patient-physician relationship /; Virtual disability : on the internet, nobody knows you're not a sick puppy /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-422) and index.
• ISBN: 9780822385530; 0822385538; 0822332566 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780822332565 (cloth : alk. paper); 0822332949 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780822332947 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Lester D. Friedman.