Cinema, MD a history of medicine on screen

The physician in practice : supremecy, MD -- The nursing profession : stereotype, RN -- Hospital and asylum : crowded and insane living -- Epidemics : killers and cripplers -- Diseased and disabled : a landscape of suffering -- Mental illness : crazed, hissy fits and a couch -- Addicted : the last l...

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1. Verfasser: Wijdicks, Eelco F. M. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Oxford University Press 2019
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Zusammenfassung:The physician in practice : supremecy, MD -- The nursing profession : stereotype, RN -- Hospital and asylum : crowded and insane living -- Epidemics : killers and cripplers -- Diseased and disabled : a landscape of suffering -- Mental illness : crazed, hissy fits and a couch -- Addicted : the last legal drugs -- Transplantation : a second chance -- Death and dying : good, bad and assisted -- Medical violations : a line crossed -- Grotesques : unwanted and abandoned -- Activism and medicine : angered and aggravated -- Epilogue : medicine in cinema through the ages.
"CINEMA, MD argues that within cinema there is a history of medicine-one version in the many different histories of Medicine. This strikingly original book establishes how cinema depicts medicine is depicted and what can we learn from it. This is the first full treatise of the depiction of medicine in film in all its glory and all its failures. It is an account of all the major films with medical themes. The book asks a number of critical questions. Filmmakers did not only depict physicians, nurses, hospitals and asylums, epidemics, diseases and disabilities, mental illness and addictions, medical feats such as organ transplantations, but they also tackled death and dying, medical experimentation, and medical monsters where the isolation and mistreatment is front and center."
Beschreibung:xx, 361 Seiten
ISBN:9780190685799
978-0-19-068579-9