Routledge handbook of health and media / edited by Lester D. Friedman and Therese Jones.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

xxi, 469 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm

Foreword / by Danielle Ofri -- Introduction: The stories of our lives : narrative, media, and health / Lester Friedman and Therese Jones -- 'Fish and chips as an excellent food' : newspapers, nutrition and government neglect in 1930s Britain / Marjorie Levine-Clark -- Breaking news : medical research reporting and its consequences / Rae-Ellen Kavey -- Climate health is human health : working through eco-anxiety with the written word in print and digital media / Carol-Ann Farkas and Shoshannah Bryn Jones Square -- Health zines : hand-made and heart-felt / Deborah Lupton -- Photography on the brain / Alicia Chester -- Power and pictures on the threshold of life : brain death and visual culture / Tim Seiber -- Military bodies, healthy bodies, damaged bodies in the photography of August Sander / Sander Gilman -- Entangled subjectivities in Lisa Lindvey's photographic project Hold together / Agnese Sile -- Brains for hire : exploring the role of psychiatric consultancy in The aviator / Matt Selway -- Recovering the patient's voice : the diagnostic process from early modern history to Oliver Sacks / Allison Kavey -- Beneath the covers : the illness of sex as depicted in film / Julie Aultman -- 'Stereotypes,' focalization and modality : mainstream cinematic images of disability / Nigel Morris -- From corporate discourse to menstrual equity? : a history of menstruation films / Christie Milliken -- Crip wisdom in the time of insulin crisis : performing #insulinforall in short documentary film / Bianca Frazer -- Aging remixed : intergenerational storytelling in the digital realm / Andrea Charise -- Documenting the American way of dying : the near death experience / Barry Keith Grant -- Early pharmaceutical TV ads and medicalized consumers / Rebecca Burditt and Leah Shafer -- Medical horror story : realism, reality, and the real on television / Catherine Belling -- Unhealthy horrors : the biopolitical zombie in twenty-first century film and television / Erik Larsen -- The category is LIVE!' : transing care and the persistence of queer survival in F/X's Pose / JV Fuqua -- Comics and the health humanities / MK Czerwiec -- Mad world-building : comics and OCD / Ian Williams -- 'I found balance' : complementary and alternative medicine in selected graphic medical narratives / Sathyaraj Venkatesan -- Drawing health activism : illness politics and prices of care in graphic AIDS narratives / Lisa Diedrich -- On mediating women in unsane spaces / Gillian Andrews and Lorenzo Servitje -- Black sites in the matrix : digital psychiatric power and racialized technologies / Olivia Banner -- Mobile health and its problems : the case of hearing and communication apps / Nicole Matthews -- Data visualization and digital contact tracing technology : emerging forms of health media / Kirsten Ostherr -- Paratext and medical authority in the world of the Internet / Tod Chambers -- Chronic constellations : Instagrammatic aesthetics and crip time / Amanda Greene -- Art spaces, performances, podcasts : community-building in a virtual age / Carolyn Wellbery -- Afterword: Audience construction and health care storytelling in the digital age / Joseph Turow.

Includes bibliographical references and index.