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Surgery junkies wellness and pathology in cosmetic culture / by Pitts-Taylor, Victoria

Table of Contents: “…Visible pathology and cosmetic wellness -- Normal extremes: cosmetic surgery television -- Miss World, Ms. Ugly : feminist debates -- The medicalization of surgery addiction -- The surgery junkie as legal subject -- The self and the limits of interiority.…”
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Body, Capital and Screens : Visual Media and the Healthy Self in the 20th Century /

Table of Contents: “…Visual media and the healthy self in the 20th century : an introduction / Christian Bonah and Anja Laukötter -- Playing the doctor, playing the patient : the performance of health identities in live medical television, 1958 / Timothy M. Boon -- The BBC's Children in Need Telethon : the currencies of compassion / Karen Lury -- Let's talk about s... : the influence of cinema verite on sex education in French National Television around 1968 / Christian Bonah -- Measuring Subjectification : the reception of health education campaigns and the evaluation conundrum / Luc Berlivet -- Swimming the crawl to educate the modern body : visual material and the expanding market for participatory sports in the USA, 1890s-1930s / Olaf Stieglitz -- Inside Magoo (1960) : comedic commentary on 1950s America and Cancer / David Cantor -- 'One feels so much in these times!' …”
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The case of Terri Schiavo ethics, politics, and death in the 21st century /

Table of Contents: “…Fiore -- Terri Schiavo and televised news : fact or fiction? / Robert M. Walker, Jay Black.…”
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Addiction dilemmas family experiences from literature and research and their challenges for practice / by Orford, Jim

Table of Contents: “…We'll be there for him : a family responds to relapse -- Long day's journey into night by Eugene O'Neill -- Tough love : a television studio discussion -- Wives of gamblers -- The tenant of wildfell hall by Anne Bront -- British sikh wives and daughters stand up to men's drinking -- Nil by mouth : a film by Gary Oldman -- Worrying for drinkers in aboriginal Australia -- A prodigal son : the mother's story -- Parents of problem gamblers -- The tale of Caitlin Thomas -- Dylan Thomas in America by John Malcolm Brinnin -- An imaginary conversation : wives in Mexico, England, South Korea and Italy -- Father figure by Beverley Nichols -- Growing up with my mother by Virginia Ironside -- Mrs Sara Coleridge and friends -- Five husbands of wives with drinking problems : a focus group -- A chancer by James Kelman -- Growing up with parents who drink excessively : four stories -- Baudelaire and his mother in chains -- Fever pitch by Richard Brooks -- I only had the baby's welfare at heart : concerned grandmothers.…”
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Imagining illness public health and visual culture /

Table of Contents: “…Helfand -- Nursing the nation : the 1930s public health nurse as image and icon / Shawn Michelle Smith -- Visual imagery and epidemics in the Twentieth Century / Roger Cooter and Claudia Stein -- The image of the child in postwar British and U.S. psychoanalysis / Lisa Cartwright -- Performing live surgery on television and the internet since 1945 / David Serlin -- Imagining mood disorders as a public health crisis / Emily Martin.…”
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