Routledge Handbook of Health and Media

The Routledge Handbook of Health and Media provides an extensive review and exploration of the myriad ways that health and media function as a symbiotic partnership that profoundly influences contemporary societies. A unique and significant volume in an expanding pedagogical field, this diverse collection of international, original, and interdisciplinary essays goes beyond issues of representation to engage in scholarly conversations about the web of networks that inextricably bind media and health to each other. Divided into sections on film, television, animation, photography, comics, advertising, social media, and print journalism, each chapter begins with a concrete text or texts, using it to raise more general and more theoretical issues about the medium in question. As such, this Handbook defines, expands, and illuminates the role that the humanities and arts play in the education and practice of healthcare professionals and in our understanding of health, illness, and disability. The Routledge Handbook of Health and Media is an invaluable reference for academics, students and health professionals engaged with cultural issues in media and medicine, popular representations of disease and disability, and the patient/professional health care encounter.

Lester D. Friedman is Emeritus Professor of Media and Society from Hobart and William Smith Colleges. His publications include: Cultural Sutures (ed.), Health Humanities Reader (co-editor) and The Picture of Health (co-editor). He has also written books on Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, American Jewish Cinema, genre theory, and Films of the 1970s. Currently, he is completing a book on Hollywood directors and composers. Therese (Tess) Jones is Associate Director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities; Director of the Arts and Humanities in Healthcare Program at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; and Professor in the Department of Medicine. The editor of the Journal of Medical Humanities; lead editor of the Health Humanities Reader; and co-editor of the Handbook on Health and Media, she has published and presented extensively on HIV/AIDS and the arts; literature, film and medicine; and medical education.

Introduction: The Stories of our Lives: Narrative, Media, and Health, Part I: Print Media, 1. 'Fish and Chips as an Excellent Food': Newspapers, Nutrition and Government Neglect in 1930s Britain, 2. Breaking News: Medical Research Reporting and its Consequences, 3. Climate Health is Human Health: Working Through Eco-Anxiety with the Written Word in Print and Digital Media, 4. Health Zines: Hand-Made and Heart-Felt, Part II: Photography, 5. Photography on the Brain, 6. Power and Pictures on the Threshold of Life: Brain Death and Visual Culture, 7. Military Bodies, Healthy Bodies, Damaged Bodies in the Photography of August Sander, 8. Entangled Subjectivities in Lisa Lindvey's Photographic Project Hold Together, Part III: Fiction Film, 9. Brains for Hire: Exploring the Role of Psychiatric Consultancy in The Aviator, 10. Recovering the Patient's Voice: The Diagnostic Process from Early Modern History to Oliver Sacks, 11. Beneath the Covers: The Illness of Sex as Depicted in Film, 12. -Stereotypes,' Focalization and Modality: Mainstream Cinematic Images of Disability, Part IV: Documentary Film, 13. From Corporate Discourse to Menstrual Equity?: A History of Menstruation Films Christie Milliken, 14. Crip Wisdom in the Time of Insulin Crisis: Performing #insulinforall in Short Documentary Film, 15. Aging Remixed: Intergenerational Storytelling in the Digital Realm, 16. Documenting the American Way of Dying: The Near Death Experience, Part V: Television, 17. Early Pharmaceutical TV Ads and Medicalized Consumers, 18. Medical Horror Story: Realism, Reality, and the Real on Television, 19. Unhealthy Horrors: The Biopolitical Zombie in Twenty-First Century Film and Television, 20. The Category is LIVE!': Transing Care and the Persistence of Queer Survival in F/X's Pose, Part VI: Comics, 21. Comics and the Health Humanities, 22. Mad World-Building: Comics and OCD, 23. 'I found balance': Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Selected Graphic Medical Narratives, 24. Drawing Health Activism: Illness Politics and Prices of Care in Graphic AIDS Narratives, Part VII: Apps, Devices, and Wearables, 25. On Mediating Women in Unsane Spaces, 26. Black Sites in the Matrix: Digital Psychiatric Power and Racialized Technologies, 27. Mobile Health and Its Problems: The Case of Hearing and Communication Apps, 28. Data Visualization and Digital Contact Tracing Technology: Emerging Forms of Health Media, Part VIII: Social Media, 29. Paratext and Medical Authority in the World of the Internet, 30. Chronic Constellations: Instagrammatic Aesthetics and Crip Time, 31. Art Spaces, Performances, Podcasts: Community-Building in a Virtual Age, Afterword: Audience Construction and Health Care Storytelling in the Digital Age