Scientists And Medical Doctors In The Movies
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Scientists And Medical Doctors In The Movies
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Scientists And Medical Doctors In The Movies written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Medical drama categories.
Doctors In The Movies
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Author : Peter E. Dans
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Doctors In The Movies written by Peter E. Dans and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Medical categories.
Similarly, changes are visible in the doctor's image from the kindly "Country Doctor" and the earnest "Dr. Kildare" to the arrogant egotists of "The Doctor" and "Malice". Intended to be both fun and instructive, the book has a lighter side that looks at clichés and stereotypes, such as someone shouting "boil the water" when a baby is about to be delivered, doctors as "sex maniacs," and ludicrous portrayals of surgeons directing their own abdominal operations. On a more serious note, the movies illustrate what the public has valued in doctoring, the changing attitudes towards science, and the evolution of issues that still confront and divide us. Assisted suicide or "mercy killing," abortion, concerns about health care costs and impersonal high-tech medicine are all in evidence. Two chapters deal with the virtual invisibility of women and black doctors in film.
Mad Scientists Weird Doctors Time Travelers In Movies Tv Books
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Author : Seymour Simon
language : en
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Release Date : 1981
Mad Scientists Weird Doctors Time Travelers In Movies Tv Books written by Seymour Simon and has been published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Surveys creatures with strange powers, including those mysteriously transformed humans, that have appeared in books, movies, and television.
Medicine S Moving Pictures
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Author : Leslie J. Reagan
language : en
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Release Date : 2007
Medicine S Moving Pictures written by Leslie J. Reagan and has been published by University Rochester Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Medical categories.
Original essays by leading media scholars and historians of medicine that explore the rich history of health-related films. This groundbreaking book argues that health and medical media, with their unique goals and production values, constitute a rich cultural and historical archive and deserve greater scholarly attention. Original essays by leading media scholars and historians of medicine demonstrate that Americans throughout the twentieth century have learned about health, disease, medicine, and the human body from movies. Heroic doctors and patients fighting dread diseaseshave thrilled and moved audiences everywhere; amid changing media formats, medicine's moving pictures continue to educate, entertain, and help us understand the body's journey through life. Perennially popular, health and medicalmedia are also complex texts reflecting many interests and constituencies including, notably, the U.S. medical profession, which has often sought, if not always successfully, to influence content, circulation, and meaning. Medicine's Moving Pictures makes clear that health and medical media representations are "more than illustrations," shows their power to shape health perceptions, practices, and policies, and identifies their social, cultural, andhistorical contexts. Contributors: Lisa Cartwright, Vanessa Northington Gamble, Rachel Gans-Boriskin, Valerie Hartouni, Susan E. Lederer, John Parascandola, Martin S. Pernick, Leslie J. Reagan, Naomi Rogers, Nancy Tomes, Paula A. Treichler, Joseph Turow Leslie J. Reagan is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Nancy Tomes is a Professor at Stony Brook University; Paula A. Treichler is a Professor atthe University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
If I Die In The Service Of Science
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Author : Jon Franklin
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2003-10
If I Die In The Service Of Science written by Jon Franklin and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10 with Medical categories.
If I Die in the Service of Science (First published as Guinea Pig Doctors) details the lives, experiments and discoveries of eight medical doctors who, in the course of their scientific investigations, used their own bodies to verify their revolutionary medical theories. Beginning with John Hunter's work on "the pox" in 18th century England, the book recounts the fascinating, colorful lives of these "guinea pig doctors" the Hartford dentist who "discovered" anesthesia by experimenting on himself with laughing gas the German scientists who toasted his rival with a solution laced with deadly cholera bacteria the famous case of Jesse Lazear, who let himself be bitten by a mosquito carrying yellow fever--and died--to prove to his colleagues that the disease was not spread by bacterial infection. The authors re-create these dramas in absorbing detail, focusing on the misconceptions and superstitions of society and the medical establishment against which each doctor struggled bravely--and won. The result is a rare blend of historical entertainment and incisive examination of the motivations--psychological, financial, social, professional--that drove these doctors to gamble their own lives on their theories. It is a marvelous and instructive study in human dedication.
The Physician
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Author : Noah Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2012-06-05
The Physician written by Noah Gordon and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-05 with Fiction categories.
An orphan leaves Dark Ages London to study medicine in Persia in this “rich” and “vivid” historical novel from a New York Times–bestselling author (The New York Times). A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. But as he matures, his strange gift—an acute sensitivity to impending death—never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer. Arab madrassas are the only authentic medical schools, and he makes his perilous way to Persia. Christians are barred from Muslim schools, but claiming he is a Jew, he studies under the world’s most renowned physician, Avicenna. How the woman who is his great love struggles against her only rival—medicine—makes a riveting modern classic. The Physician is the first book in New York Times–bestselling author Noah Gordon’s Dr. Robert Cole trilogy, which continues with Shaman and concludes with Matters of Choice.
Handbook Of Popular Culture And Biomedicine
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Author : Arno Görgen
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-09-10
Handbook Of Popular Culture And Biomedicine written by Arno Görgen and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-10 with Social Science categories.
This handbook explores the ways biomedicine and pop culture interact while simultaneously introducing the reader with the tools and ideas behind this new field of enquiry. From comic books to health professionals, from the arts to genetics, from sci-fi to medical education, from TV series to ethics, it offers different entry points to an exciting and central aspect of contemporary culture: how and what we learn about (and from) scientific knowledge and its representation in pop culture. Divided into three sections the handbook surveys the basics, the micro-, and the macroaspects of this interaction between specialized knowledge and cultural production: After the introduction of basic concepts of and approaches to the topic from a variety of disciplines, the respective theories and methods are applied in specific case studies. The final section is concerned with larger social and historical trends of the use of biomedical knowledge in popular culture. Presenting over twenty-five original articles from international scholars with different disciplinary backgrounds, this handbook introduces the topic of pop culture and biomedicine to both new and mature researchers alike. The articles, all complete with a rich source of further references, are aimed at being a sincere entry point to researchers and academic educators interested in this somewhat unexplored field of culture and biomedicine.
Frightfest Guide To Mad Doctor Movies
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Author : John Llewellyn Probert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-08-27
Frightfest Guide To Mad Doctor Movies written by John Llewellyn Probert and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-27 with Performing Arts categories.
Mad medics... sinister surgeons... psychopathic psychiatrists. We put our trust in them. They say they want to help, to cure, to relieve pain and soothe suffering. They claim those experiments they've been performing are for the greater good of mankind. But what if they actually want the opposite? What happens when doctors are dead set on researching the strange, the bizarre, the weird? What happens when all that scientific and medical knowledge only results in the creation of unimaginable horror? Ever since the dawn of cinema, filmmakers have been depicting on screen the potential outcomes of medical madness and science gone sick. Now join surgeon, author, film critic and not-at-all-mad Doctor (at least according to him) John Llewellyn Probert as he takes a detailed look at the history of one of the most enduring archetypes in cinema, with an introductory overview of the genre followed by reviews of over 200 key mad doctor movies. In addition to critical appraisal, the author's own m
Doctors And Discoveries
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Author : John Simmons
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2002
Doctors And Discoveries written by John Simmons and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Traces the history of western medicine through the lives of its major contributors, profiling such well-known figures as Hippocrates and Louis Pasteur, as well as lesser-known scientists including Elle Metchnikoff and Samuel Hahnemann.
For The Good Of Mankind
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Author : Vicki Oransky Wittenstein
language : en
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Release Date : 2013-08-01
For The Good Of Mankind written by Vicki Oransky Wittenstein and has been published by Twenty-First Century Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-01 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
Experiment: A child is deliberately infected with the deadly smallpox disease without his parents' informed consent. Result: The world's first vaccine. Experiment: A slave woman is forced to undergo more than thirty operations without anesthesia. Result: The beginnings of modern gynecology. Incidents like these paved the way for crucial, lifesaving medical discoveries. But they also harmed and humiliated their test subjects. How do doctors balance the need to test new medicines and procedures with their ethical duty to protect the rights of humans? Take a journey through some of history's greatest medical advances—and its most horrifying medical atrocities—to discover how human suffering has gone hand in hand with medical advancement.