Medicine and the media exist in a unique symbiosis. Increasingly,
health-care consumers turn to media sources-from news reports to
Web sites to tv shows-for information about diseases, treatments,
pharmacology, and important health issues. And just as the media
scour the medical terrain for news stories and plot lines, those in
the health-care industry use the media to publicize legitimate
stories and advance particular agendas. The essays in Cultural
Sutures delineate this deeply collaborative process by scrutinizing
a broad range of interconnections between medicine and the media in
print journalism, advertisements, fiction films, television shows,
documentaries, and computer technology. In this volume, scholars of
cinema studies, philosophy, English, sociology, health-care
education, women's studies, bioethics, and other fields demonstrate
how the world of medicine engages and permeates the media that
surround us. Whether examining the press coverage of the Jack
Kevorkian-euthanasia controversy; pondering questions about
accessibility, accountability, and professionalism raised by such
films as Awakenings, The Doctor, and Lorenzo's Oil; analyzing the
depiction of doctors, patients, and medicine on E.R. and Chicago
Hope; or considering the ways in which digital technologies have
redefined the medical body, these essays are consistently
illuminating and provocative. Contributors. Arthur Caplan, Tod
Chambers, Stephanie Clark-Brown, Marc R. Cohen, Kelly A. Cole, Lucy
Fischer, Lester D. Friedman, Joy V. Fuqua, Sander L. Gilman,
Norbert Goldfield, Joel Howell, Therese Jones, Timothy Lenoir,
Gregory Makoul, Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Faith McLellan, Jonathan
M. Metzl, Christie Milliken, Martin F. Norden, Kirsten Ostherr,
Limor Peer, Audrey Shafer, Joseph Turow, Greg VandeKieft, Otto F.
Wahl
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