Cultural Sutures: Medicine and Media

by Lester D. Friedman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822332949
• ISBN13: 9780822332947
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 452 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"