Cultural Sutures: Medicine and Media

A collection of essays on medicine and media from newspapers through film, television, and computers Demonstrates how pervasively the world of medicine engages and permeates the media that surround us 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 Cultural Sutures illuminate this deeply collaborative process by scrutinizing a broad range of interconnections between medicine and the media in print journalism, advertisements, fiction films, television shows, and documentaries and via computers. Scholars of cinema studies, philosophy, English, sociology, health-care education, women’s studies, bioethics, and other fields, the contributors demonstrate how pervasively the world of medicine engages and permeates the media that surround us.