Original essays by leading media scholars and historians of medicine that explore the rich history of health-related films.

Leslie J. Reagan, Nancy Tomes, Paula A. Treichler

More than Illustrations: Early Twentieth-Century Health Films as Contributors to the Histories of Medicine - Martin Pernick
Celebrity Diseases - Nancy Tomes
Syphilis at the Cinema: Medicine and Morals in VD Films of the U.S. Public Health Service in World War II - John Parascandola
Medicine, Popular Culture, and the Power of Narrative: The HIV/AIDS Storyline on General Hospital - Paula Treichler
Mandy (1952): On Voice and Listening in the (Deaf): Maternal Melodrama - Lisa Cartwright
Projecting Breast Cancer: Self-Examination Films and the Making of a New Cultural Practice - Leslie Reagan
American Medicine and the Politics of Filmmaking: Sister Kenny (RKO, 1946) - Naomi Rogers
Passing or Passive: Postwar Hollywood Images of Black Physicians - Vanessa Northington Gamble
From Expert in Action to Existential Angst: A Half Century of Television Doctors - Rachel Gans-Boriskin and Joseph Turrow
Hollywood and Human Experimentation: Representing Medical Research in Popular Film - Susan Lederer
Technicolor Technoscience: Rescripting the Future - Valerie Hartouni