Introduction: through the looking glass: medical culture and the media / Lester D. Friedman The pharmaceutical gaze: psychiatry, scopophilia, and psychotropic medication advertising, 1964-1985 / Jonathan M. Metzl Taken to extremes: newspapers and Kevorkian's televised euthanasia incident / Arthur L. Caplan and Joseph Turow Stop the presses: journalistic treatment of mental illness / Otto F. Wahl The nurse-saver and the TV hostess: advertising hospital television, 1950-1970 / Joy V. Fuqua Exorcising "men in white" on television: an exercise in cultural power / Kelly A. Cole Drive-by medicine: managed care ads on billboards / Norbert Goldfield Frankenflicks: medical monsters in classic horror films / Stephanie Brown Clark Big boys do cry: empathy in the doctor / Lucy Fischer Institutional impediments: medical bureaucracies in the movies / Marilyn Chandler McEntyre Images and healers: a visual history of scientific medicine / Marc R. Cohen and Audrey Shafer From city hospital to ER: the evolution of the television physician / Gregg VandeKieft
The fat detective: obesity and disability / Sander L. Gilman
Dissecting the doctor shows: a content analysis of ER and Chicago hope / Gregory Makoul and Limor Peer
Reproductive freedom, revisionist history, restricted cinema: the strange case of Margaret Sanger and birth control / Martin F. Norden
Continence of the continent: the ideology of disease and hygiene in World War II training films / Christie Milliken
"Invisible invaders": the global body in public health films / Kirsten Ostherr
The medium is the message: documenting the story of Dax Cowart / Therese Jones
Technologies transforming health care: X-rays, computers, and the internet / Joel D. Howell
The shape of things to come: surgery in the age of medialization / Timothy Lenoir
Medicine.com: the internet and the patient-physician relationship / Faith McLellan
Virtual disability: on the internet, nobody knows you're not a sick puppy / Tod Chambers.
