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.
Author(s): Lester D. Friedman, Therese Jones
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 491
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Figures
About the Editors
Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Stories of Our Lives: Narrative, Media, and Health
Once Upon a Narrative
Narratives and the Health Humanities
The Narrative Interface With Media
Narrative/health/media
Bearing Witness/making Change
Works Cited
Part I Print Media
1 “‘Fish and Chips’ as an Excellent Food”: Newspapers, Nutrition, and Government Neglect in 1930s Britain
Politics, Poverty, Public Health, and the Press
The Facts of Nutrition and the Working Man’s Diet
Public Health Expertise Versus “cold-Blooded Capitalism”
Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
2 Breaking News: Medical Research Reporting and Its Consequences
The Hormone Replacement Therapy Saga
Reporting the WHI: Headline News
The Full Report: Statistical Analysis
Repercussions
WHI After 2002
Hormone Therapy and Heart Disease
Hormone Therapy and Breast Cancer
Hormone Therapy and Osteoporosis/fracture Risk
Hormone Therapy: Overall Impact
Pushback
Conclusion
Works Cited
3 Climate Health Is Human Health: Working Through Eco-Anxiety With the Written Word in Print and Digital Media
Print Is Dead, Long Live “Print”!
What Are Eco-Anxiety and Eco-Grief, and How Can “Print” Help Us Cope With These Negative “Earth Emotions”?
Moving Beyond Awareness to Compassion and Collective Action
Works Cited
4 Health Zines: Hand-Made and Heart-Felt
Introduction
Zines: an Overview
Expressing Lived Experiences of Embodiment
Political Activism
Therapy and Self-Care
Pedagogies
Community Building
Research-creation
Concluding Comments
Works Cited
Part II Photography
5 Photography On the Brain
Works Cited
6 Power and Pictures On the Threshold of Life: Brain Death and Visual Culture
Getting There: Death and the Brain in Visual Media
The Temporal Life of the Dead in Pictures and in Practice
Medical Visuality and Popular Images: the Case of Terri Schiavo
Conclusion: Now You See It?
Works Cited
7 Military Bodies, Healthy Bodies, Damaged Bodies in the Photography of August Sander
August Sander in Weimar: a Case Study
Sander in the Third Reich
Wounded Warriors
After 1945
Notes
Works Cited
8 Entangled Subjectivities in Lisa Lindvay’s Photographic Project Hold Together
Introduction
Performing Photography
Hold Together
Maternal Presence/absence
Repetition, Boredom, and Transgression
Conclusion
Note
Works Cited
Part III Fiction Film
9 Brains for Hire: Exploring the Role of Psychiatric Consultancy in The Aviator
Introduction: the Accuracy Fallacy
Understanding Symptomology and “Finding the Right Feeling”
“Authenticating Artefacts”
The Role(s) of Psychiatric Consultant
Outcomes/conclusion
Note
Works Cited
10 Recovering the Patient’s Voice The Diagnostic Process From Early Modern History to Oliver Sacks
Diagnosis in Early Modern Medicine
Awakenings
Conclusion
Works Cited
11 Beneath the Covers: The Illness of Sex as Depicted in Film
Little Children: Sexual Desires and Deviancy in Suburbia
Social Stigma and the Medicalization of Sexual Deviancy and Perversion
The Sessions: Disabled Desires
Sex and Disabled Bodies
The Nightingale: an Illness Narrative of Sexual Violence and Colonization
The Harmful Effects of a Rape Film Trope With Integrity
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
12 “Stereotypes,” Focalization and Modality: Mainstream Cinematic Images of Disability
Context: the Last Liberation Movement
Definitions, Scope, and Focus
Problems With “Stereotyping”
Representation and Focalization
Representation and Modality
Bringing It Together: Joker
Conclusion
Note
Works Cited
Part IV Documentary Film
13 From Corporate Discourse to Menstrual Equity?: A History of Menstruation Films
Hygienic Bodies
From Hygiene to Critical Menstrual Discourse
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
14 Crip Wisdom in the Time of Insulin Crisis: Performing #insulin4all in Short Documentary Film
Introduction
Performing Disability, Performing Diabetes
Performing the Burden: Crossing Borders to Access Insulin
Documenting the Cost: Emotional Vulnerability as Activism
Creative Strategies: the Underground Network
Conclusions and Future Work
Works Cited
15 Aging, Remixed: Intergenerational Storytelling in the Digital Realm
Aging, Remixed: Intergenerational Storytelling in the Digital Realm
Digital Storytelling: Situating Ethical Media Practice
Digital Mediations: Spreadable Age Studies
Case Study: The Resemblage Project
Conclusion: Acknowledging Endurance
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
16 Documenting the American Way of Dying: The Near Death Experience
Introduction
The Near Death Experience
“Episodes of Pain”
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Part V Television
17 Early Pharmaceutical TV Ads and Medicalized Consumers
Pharmaceutical Advertising and U.S. Culture
Claritin Commercial and Early Internet Aesthetics
Race and the Whiteness of Health
Notes
Works Cited
18 Medical Horror Story: Realism, Reality, and the Real On Television
Realism
Reality
The Real
Works Cited
19 Unhealthy Horrors: The Biopolitical Zombie in 21st-Century Film and Television
Notes
Works Cited
20 “The Category Is LIVE!”: Transing Care and the Persistence of Queer Survival in F/X’s Pose
Introduction
Encoding Trans Care: Trans Labor as Collective Creativity
The Production Context: Who Else Besides the White, Cis, Gay Guy Gets to Tell this Story?
Making Trans Care Visible
Notes
Works Cited
Part VI Comics
21 Comics and the Health Humanities
Works Cited
22 Mad World-Building: Comics and OCD
Introduction
OCD as a Condition of Exaggerated Self-Monitoring: Comics as Self-Representation
OCD as a Problem of Doubt: Comics as Truth
OCD as Creativity: Comics as a Therapy
Conclusion
Works Cited
23 “I Found Balance”: Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Selected Graphic Medical Narratives
Introduction to CAM
Graphic Medicine: an Overview
Texts and Contexts: Marbles and The Nao of Brown
“I Found Balance”: Yoga and Balancing the Poles
“Balancing the Dark With the Light”: Yin Yang and Other Symbols
“The Circle of Life”: OCD, Enso and The Nao of Brown
Coda
Note
Works Cited
24 Drawing Health Activism: Illness Politics and Practices of Care in Graphic AIDS Narratives
Sex, Health, and Community: Making It
Cartoons as Antidote: Dykes to Watch Out For
Trans-everything: Sexile
Drawing Comics as Care: Taking Turns
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Part VII Apps, Devices, and Wearables
25 On Mediating Women in Unsane Spaces
Introduction
Missed Opportunities, Obfuscated Mediums, and Reinscribed Messages
Cell Phone Slippage: Phones as Both Risk and Risk Mitigation
Uncopable, Uncanny Measures, and Media
Reading for Unsane Structures and an Unresolved Closure
Notes
Works Cited
26 Black Sites in the Matrix: Digital Psychiatric Power and Racialized Technologies
NIMH’s RDoC Matrix and Professional Power
The App Economy, Participatory Culture, and Shifting Cultures of Expertise
Psychiatric-technological Power Within Racializing Health Care Systems
How Do Black Lives Matter in the Matrix?
Works Cited
27 Mobile Health and Its Problems: The Case of Hearing and Communication Apps
Health, Hearing Apps, and the Problems They Set Out to Solve
SoundPrint: Reframing the Problem of Hearing By Mapping Soundscapes
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Works Cited
28 Data Visualization and Digital Contact Tracing Technology: Emerging Forms of Health Media
Introduction
Data Visualizations: Seeing With Technology
Digital Contact Tracing: Mapping Incomplete Narratives
Conclusion
Works Cited
Part VIII Social Media
29 Paratext and Medical Authority in the World of the Internet
Introduction
Intertextuality, Transtextuality, and Paratexts
The Role of Centrifugal and Centripetal Paratexts
Paratextual Simulacrum
Commercial Paratext
Celebrity Transtextuality
Rhetorical Power of the Pathography
Centrifugal Ecosystems
Conclusion
Works Cited
30 Chronic Constellations: Instagrammatic Aesthetics and Crip Time
Seeing Endometriosis
Disability, Aesthetics
Crip Time(lines)
Imagetextual Illness
A Closing Constellation
Note
Works Cited
31 Art Spaces, Performances, Podcasts: Community-Building in a Virtual Age
Old Stories, New Platforms
Stories of Medicine in the Cyber-Community: Lessons From the Academic Podcast
Communal Art Experiences Foster Resilience
Illness Performances
Disrupting Community
Works Cited
Afterword: Audience Construction and Health Care Storytelling in the Digital Age
Works Cited
Index
