Cinema, MD: A History of Medicine on Screen

Cinema, MD: A History of Medicine on Screen
ISBN-10
0190685794
ISBN-13
9780190685799
Category
Medical
Pages
385
Language
English
Published
2020
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Author
Eelco F. M. Wijdicks

Description

Cinema, MD follows the intersection of medicine and film and how filmmakers wrote a history of medicine over time, analyzing not only changing practices, changing morals, and changing expectations but also medical stereotypes, medical activism, and violations of patients' integrity and autonomy. Examining over 400 films with medical themes over a century of cinema, this book establishes the cultural, medical, and historical importance of the artform.

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