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Author:   Kirsten Ostherr (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Rice University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 16.30cm
Weight:   0.604kg
ISBN:  

9780199737246

ISBN 10:   019973724
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   11 April 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Medical Ways of Seeing Chapter One: Visual Education, Health Communication, and Scientific Filmmaking in the Early Twentieth Century Chapter Two: ""The Entire Medical Profession Is Becoming 'Film Conscious'"": How Cinema Became Part of Medical Education Chapter Three: ""The Disruption of Medical Education throughout the World"": Global Networks for Medical Media in the Postwar Era Chapter Four: From the Avant-Garde to Experimental Television: Mid-Century Technologies of Medical Perception Chapter Five: Medical Relevance and Public Relations: How Cinéma Vérité Became the Video News Release Chapter Six: Medical Reality TV, Social Media, and the Networked Patient Conclusion: Ten Lessons for the Future of Medical Media Bibliography"

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extensive archival work and the depth of its analysis makes it essential reading for any historians with an interest in the role that visual mass media have played in the development of science, technology and medicine David. A Kirby, Social History of Medicine

""Kirsten Ostherr shows us how we might learn to see--and to experience--health and illness differently. Medical Visions is crucial reading for anyone who practices medicine and for anyone who is, has been, or will be a patient--which is to say, all of us.""--Priscilla Wald, author of Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative ""With fascinating discussions of documentaries, training films, television shows, advertisements, and more, Medical Visions underscores the key role played by the media in shaping our common sense ideas about medicine and objectivity. Ostherr's important study provides a guide to watching and understanding today's new health media. This book is an example of the medical humanities at its finest.""--Joseph Dumit, author of Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health

<br> Kirsten Ostherr shows us how we might learn to see--and to experience--health and illness differently. Medical Visions is crucial reading for anyone who practices medicine and for anyone who is, has been, or will be a patient--which is to say, all of us. --Priscilla Wald, author of Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative<p><br> With fascinating discussions of documentaries, training films, television shows, advertisements, and more, Medical Visions underscores the key role played by the media in shaping our common sense ideas about medicine and objectivity. Ostherr's important study provides a guide to watching and understanding today's new health media. This book is an example of the medical humanities at its finest. --Joseph Dumit, author of Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health<p><br>

Kirsten Ostherr shows us how we might learn to see--and to experience--health and illness differently. Medical Visions is crucial reading for anyone who practices medicine and for anyone who is, has been, or will be a patient--which is to say, all of us. --Priscilla Wald, author of Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative With fascinating discussions of documentaries, training films, television shows, advertisements, and more, Medical Visions underscores the key role played by the media in shaping our common sense ideas about medicine and objectivity. Ostherr's important study provides a guide to watching and understanding today's new health media. This book is an example of the medical humanities at its finest. --Joseph Dumit, author of Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health

Kirsten Ostherr shows us how we might learn to see--and to experience--health and illness differently. Medical Visions is crucial reading for anyone who practices medicine and for anyone who is, has been, or will be a patient--which is to say, all of us. --Priscilla Wald, author of Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative With fascinating discussions of documentaries, training films, television shows, advertisements, and more, Medical Visions underscores the key role played by the media in shaping our common sense ideas about medicine and objectivity. Ostherr's important study provides a guide to watching and understanding today's new health media. This book is an example of the medical humanities at its finest. --Joseph Dumit, author of Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health

Author Information

Kirsten Ostherr is an Associate Professor of English at Rice University. She is author of Cinematic Prophylaxis: Globalization and Contagion in the Discourse of World Health.

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