Kirsten Ostherr: 2 books
Cinematic Prophylaxis
Globalization and Contagion in the Discourse of World Health
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
A timely contribution to the fields of film history, visual cultures, and globalization studies, Cinematic Prophylaxis provides essential historical information about how the representation of biological contagion has affected understandings of the origins and vectors of disease. Kirsten Ostherr tracks...
Medical Visions
Producing the Patient Through Film, Television, and Imaging Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
How do visual images shape the practice of medicine? What role does visual representation play in the cultivation of medical ways of seeing? And how has medicine's visual culture changed in the digital age? Kirsten Ostherr's ambitious study explores 120 years of medical image-making to explain how...