Cinema, MD : a history of medicine on screen / Eelco F.M. Wijdicks.

"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 i...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wijdicks, Eelco F. M., 1954- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Medicine in motion pictures.
Motion pictures.
Medicine in the Arts.
Motion Pictures.
Arzt > Motiv.
Film.
Kranker > Motiv.
Medizin > Motiv.
Physical Description:xx, 361 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.