Medical visions : producing the patient through film, television, and imaging technologies /
Kirsten Ostherr.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.
- x, 307 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-284) and index.
Visual education, health communication, and scientific filmmaking in the early twentieth century -- "The entire medical profession is becoming 'film conscious'" : how cinema became part of medical education -- "The disruption of medical education throughout the world" : global networks for medical media in the postwar era -- From the avant-garde to experimental television : mid-century technologies of medical perception -- Medical relevance and public relations : how cinéma vérité became the video news release -- Medical reality TV, social media, and the networked patient.
9780199737253 (alk. paper)
2012024726
Medical cinematography. Cinematography--Scientific applications. Mass media. History of Medicine. Mass Media. Education, Medical--history. History, 20th Century.