Includes bibliographical references (pages [166]-[175]) and index.
Contents:
Magic bullets, dark victories and cold comforts : some preliminary observations about stories of sickness in the cinema / Brian Glasser -- Birth traumas : medicine, parturition and horror in Rosemary's Baby / Lucy Fischer -- The mainstream AIDS movie prior to the 1990s / Kenneth MacKinnon -- Health education films in Britain, 1919-39 : production, genres and audiences / Timothy M. Boon -- Sex, death and stereotypes : disability in Sick and Crash / Tom Shakespeare -- Past imperfect, future tense : the health services in British cinema of the mid-century / Andrew Moor -- Just a story or a 'just story'? Ethical issues in a film with a medical theme / M. Roy Jobson & Donna Knapp van Bogaert -- 'Either he's dead or my watch has stopped' : medical notes in 1930s film comedy / Graeme Harper -- Angels, battleaxes and good-time girls : cinema's images of nurses / Julia Hallam -- 'To catch a star on your fingertips' : diagnosing the medical biopic from The Story of Louis Pasteur to Freud / Bruce Babington -- From Let there be light to Shades of grey : the construction of authoritative knowledge about combat fatigue (1945-48) / C. A. Morgan III -- Imitation of life : the politics of the new genetics in cinema / Jackie Stacey.
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