{"product_id":"cultural-sutures-lester-d-friedman-9780822332947","title":"Cultural Sutures: Medicine and Media","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eCultural Sutures\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eAwakenings, The Doctor, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLorenzo's Oil;\u003c\/i\u003e analyzing the depiction of doctors, patients, and medicine on \u003ci\u003eE.R.\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eChicago Hope;\u003c\/i\u003e or considering the ways in which digital technologies have redefined the medical body, these essays are consistently illuminating and provocative.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors.\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lester D. Friedman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822332949\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822332947\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/06\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 452\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2005 pg. 885","brand":"Lester D. Friedman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48443719680255,"sku":"9780822332947","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ece3aeec-f961-4d70-9f43-16105e429bf0.jpg?v=1777207369","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cultural-sutures-lester-d-friedman-9780822332947","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}