Cinema, MD

PREFACE CHAPTER 1: THE PHYSICIAN IN PRACTICE: SUPREMECY, MD Acting the Part The Early Celluloid Doctor The Specialist in Film Cinematic Identities It Is All About Surgeons, Isn't It? Portraying Compassion CHAPTER 2: THE NURSING PROFESSION: STEREOTYPE, RN Pioneers Innovative Caregivers Cut from a Different Cloth The Nurse (and often the Doctor) Chauvinistic Tropes And Then There Was Nurse Ratched CHAPTER 3: HOSPITAL AND ASYLUM: CROWDED AND INSANE LIVING The Hospital Room Bricks and Mortar Not all Hospitals are the Same The Asylum Haunting places Abysmal places CHAPTER 4: EPIDEMICS: KILLERS AND CRIPPLERS Infections through History Tragic Misfortunes Killer Outbreaks and Other Fantasies The 20th Century Epidemics Poliomyelitis on Screen AIDS on Screen CHAPTER 5: DISEASED AND DISABLED: A LANDSCAPE OF SUFFERING Diseases in Cinema How Much Time Do I Have, Doctor? Senses Lost Unable To See Unable To Hear Unable To Feel Unable To Taste Aging and Frailty An Erasing Mind CHAPTER 6: MENTAL ILLNESS: CRAZED, HISSY FITS AND A COUCH Weimar Kino and Dr Caligari When Freud and Psychoanalysis Came Along Cinematic Psychopathology Labelling Personalities Wired Differently Maniacal and Murderous War and Wounded without Wounds A Crazy Side Effect Socially Awkward Wired Differently CHAPTER 7: ADDICTED: THE LAST LEGAL DRUGS Live By Example To the Brim Smooth Smoking From Den to Hospital to Street CHAPTER 8: TRANSPLANTATION: A SECOND CHANCE Stumbling and Rejecting Transplantation Horror Transplantation Foibles Who Receives? Who Matches? Metal to Flesh Transplantation with Love CHAPTER 9: DEATH AND DYING: GOOD, BAD AND ASSISTED The Good Death The Bad Death The Assisted Death Posthumous The Morgue Left Behind in Grief CHAPTER 10: MEDICAL VIOLATIONS:A LINE CROSSED Cinema of Nazi Physicians Forced Sterilization The Tuskegee Study Vivisection Lobotomy Psychological Experiments CHAPTER 11: GROTESQUES: UNWANTED AND ABANDONED Exhibit the Revolting Misshapen An Odd Face The Elephant Man The Neurology of Frankenstein's Creature CHAPTER 12: ACTIVISM AND MEDICINE: ANGERED AND AGGRAVATED Woeful Healthcare First Do No Harm?- an American Story First Do No Harm? -a British Story AIDS Activism Big Pharma The Abortion Debate The Vaccination Debate CHAPTER 13: EPILOGUE: MEDICINE IN CINEMA THROUGH THE AGES Themes and Tropes Defining Decades That's Not All, Folks Closing Credits FILMOGRAPHY GLOSSARY OF MEDICAL TERMS