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.

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