Handbook of popular culture and biomedicine
Contents
The medicalization of popular culture
epistemical, ethical and aesthetical structures of biomedical knowledge as cultural artefact
Arno Görgen, Heiner Fangerau
1-12
Cool geeks, dangerous nerds, entrepreneurial scientists and idealistic physicians? exploring science and medicine in popular culture
Joachim Allgaier
25-39
Advantages and disadvantages of pop-cultural artifacts for exploring bioethical issues
Sandra Shapshay
57-70
Insights into insights
visual narratives of medical imaging and intervention technologies and the popular viscourse
Anna L. Roethe
139-156
The audiovisual process of creating evidence – science television imagining the brain
Regina Brückner, Sarah Greifenstein
157-178
Medical history's graphic power in American true-adventure comic books of the 1940s
Bert Hansen
179-194
Medical narratives in the south African novel
case study of Chris Karsten's trilogy the skin collector (2012), the Skinner's revenge (2013) and face-off (2014)
Karen Ferreira-Meyers
195-206
Dis/ability
the construction of norms and normality in popular culture
Simon Ledder, Catharina Münte
207-227
Between utopia and dystopia
contemporary art and its conflicting representations of scientific knowledge
245-258
With great power comes changing representations
from radiation to genetics in the origin of spider-man
Simon Locke
259-270
Consuming, experiencing, and governing
setting the scene for public encounters with biomedicine
Anda Adamsone-Fiskovica
323-335
Bias by medical drama. reflections of stereotypic images of physicians in the context of contemporary medical dramas
Moritz Köhler, Claudia Förstner, Maximilian Zellner, Michael Noll-Hussong
337-349