Visual Knowledge in Medicine and Popular Film

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Mar 1998 English Publisher:Project MUSEJournal:Literature and Medicine, volume 17, pages 24-44 (eissn: 1080-6571,

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Authors: T H, Crawford;

doi: 10.1353/lm.1998.0002

pmid: 9604843

Visual Knowledge in Medicine and Popular Film

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Abstract

Crawford's essay raises questions about simple, direct observation in medical practice and research by considering how audiences view two of William Dieterle's films, The Story of Louis Pasteur, and Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet. Through a reading of optical practices as well as a close look at the two films, Crawford points out how medicine and its ethics are enmeshed in medicine's optical technologies and its practitioners' ways of seeing.

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Georgia Institute of Technology
United States

Keywords

Europe, Motion Pictures, Medicine in the Arts, Humans, History, 19th Century, History, 20th Century, United States

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