Routledge Handbook of Health and Media

Herausgeber: Friedman, Lester D.; Jones, Therese

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Produktbeschreibung

The Routledge Handbook of Health and Media provides an extensive review and exploration of the myriad ways that health and media function as a symbiotic partnership that profoundly influences contemporary societies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 470
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781032309484
• ISBN-10: 1032309482
• Artikelnr.: 73143119

Autorenporträt

Lester D. Friedman is Emeritus Professor of Media and Society from Hobart and William Smith Colleges. His publications include: Cultural Sutures (ed .), Health Humanities Reader (co-editor) and The Picture of Health (co-editor). He has also written books on Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, American Jewish Cinema, genre theory, and Films of the 1970s. Currently, he is completing a book on Hollywood directors and composers. Therese (Tess) Jones is Associate Director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities; Director of the Arts and Humanities in Healthcare Program at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; and Professor in the Department of Medicine. The editor of the Journal of Medical Humanities; lead editor of the Health Humanities Reader; and co-editor of the Handbook on Health and Media, she has published and presented extensively on HIV/AIDS and the arts; literature, film and medicine; and medical education.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Stories of our Lives: Narrative
Media
and Health
Part I: Print Media
1. 'Fish and Chips as an Excellent Food': Newspapers
Nutrition and Government Neglect in 1930s Britain
2. Breaking News: Medical Research Reporting and its Consequences
3. Climate Health is Human Health: Working Through Eco-Anxiety with the Written Word in Print and Digital Media
4. Health Zines: Hand-Made and Heart-Felt
Part II: Photography
5. Photography on the Brain
6. Power and Pictures on the Threshold of Life: Brain Death and Visual Culture
7. Military Bodies
Healthy Bodies
Damaged Bodies in the Photography of August Sander
8. Entangled Subjectivities in Lisa Lindvey's Photographic Project Hold Together
Part III: Fiction Film
9. Brains for Hire: Exploring the Role of Psychiatric Consultancy in The Aviator
10. Recovering the Patient's Voice: The Diagnostic Process from Early Modern History to Oliver Sacks
11. Beneath the Covers: The Illness of Sex as Depicted in Film
12. ¿Stereotypes
' Focalization and Modality: Mainstream Cinematic Images of Disability
Part IV: Documentary Film
13. From Corporate Discourse to Menstrual Equity?: A History of Menstruation Films Christie Milliken
14. Crip Wisdom in the Time of Insulin Crisis: Performing #insulinforall in Short Documentary Film
15. Aging Remixed: Intergenerational Storytelling in the Digital Realm
16. Documenting the American Way of Dying: The Near Death Experience
Part V: Television
17. Early Pharmaceutical TV Ads and Medicalized Consumers
18. Medical Horror Story: Realism
Reality
and the Real on Television
19. Unhealthy Horrors: The Biopolitical Zombie in Twenty-First Century Film and Television
20. The Category is LIVE!': Transing Care and the Persistence of Queer Survival in F/X's Pose
Part VI: Comics
21. Comics and the Health Humanities
22. Mad World-Building: Comics and OCD
23. 'I found balance': Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Selected Graphic Medical Narratives
24. Drawing Health Activism: Illness Politics and Prices of Care in Graphic AIDS Narratives
Part VII: Apps
Devices
and Wearables
25. On Mediating Women in Unsane Spaces
26. Black Sites in the Matrix: Digital Psychiatric Power and Racialized Technologies
27. Mobile Health and Its Problems: The Case of Hearing and Communication Apps
28. Data Visualization and Digital Contact Tracing Technology: Emerging Forms of Health Media
Part VIII: Social Media
29. Paratext and Medical Authority in the World of the Internet
30. Chronic Constellations: Instagrammatic Aesthetics and Crip Time
31. Art Spaces
Performances
Podcasts: Community-Building in a Virtual Age
Afterword: Audience Construction and Health Care Storytelling in the Digital Age