Handbook of Popular Culture and Biomedicine: Knowledge in the Life Sciences as Cultural Artefact

Front Matter ....Pages i-vii
 The Medicalization of Popular Culture: Epistemical, Ethical and Aesthetical Structures of Biomedical Knowledge as Cultural Artefact  (Arno Görgen, German Alfonso Nunez, Heiner Fangerau)....Pages 1-12
Front Matter ....Pages 13-13
 Knowledge Production Between Popular Culture and Scientific Culture  (David A. Kirby)....Pages 15-23
 Cool Geeks, Dangerous Nerds, Entrepreneurial Scientists and Idealistic Physicians? Exploring Science and Medicine in Popular Culture  (Joachim Allgaier)....Pages 25-39
 Biomedicine and Bioethics  (Heiner Fangerau, Gisela Badura-Lotter)....Pages 41-55
 Advantages and Disadvantages of Pop-Cultural Artifacts for Exploring Bioethical Issues  (Sandra Shapshay)....Pages 57-70
 Narrative  (Hans-Joachim Backe)....Pages 71-78
 Rhetoric of Popular Culture and Representations of Biomedicine  (Barry Brummett)....Pages 79-87
 Popular Culture and the Dissemination of Knowledge  (John Storey)....Pages 89-94
 Images and Self-Evidence  (Michael Martin, Heiner Fangerau)....Pages 95-113
 The Visual Claim Within Medical Science and Popular Culture  (Angela Schröder)....Pages 115-121
Front Matter ....Pages 123-123
 Medicalized Screens from the Cold War to the Social Web  (Kirsten Ostherr)....Pages 125-138
 Insights into Insights: Visual Narratives of Medical Imaging and Intervention Technologies and the Popular Viscourse  (Anna L. Roethe)....Pages 139-156
 The Audiovisual Process of Creating Evidence – Science Television Imagining the Brain  (Regina Brückner, Sarah Greifenstein)....Pages 157-178
 Medical History’s Graphic Power in American True-Adventure Comic Books of the 1940s  (Bert Hansen)....Pages 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)....Pages 195-206
 Dis/ability: The Construction of Norms and Normality in Popular Culture  (Simon Ledder, Catharina Münte)....Pages 207-227
 Popular Narratives of the Cochlear Implant  (Anna Grebe, Robert Stock, Markus Spöhrer)....Pages 229-243
 Between Utopia and Dystopia: Contemporary Art and Its Conflicting Representations of Scientific Knowledge  (German Alfonso Nunez)....Pages 245-258
 With Great Power Comes Changing Representations: From Radiation to Genetics in the Origin of Spider-Man  (Simon Locke)....Pages 259-270
 Music in Serious Games as a Healing Factor  (Yvonne Stingel-Voigt)....Pages 271-282
 Autonomy, Heteronomy, and Bioethics in BioShock  (Arno Görgen, Matthis Krischel)....Pages 283-300
 The Scientific Enterprise Illustrated: Abduction, Discovery and Creativity  (Fabrizio Augusto Poltronieri)....Pages 301-306
 Using Case Studies from Popular Culture to Teach Medical Physiology  (Ronan M. G. Berg)....Pages 307-319
Front Matter ....Pages 321-321
 Consuming, Experiencing, and Governing: Setting the Scene for Public Encounters with Biomedicine  (Anda Adamsone-Fiskovica)....Pages 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)....Pages 337-349
 The Medical, Social, and Cultural Construction and Production of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder  (Arno Görgen)....Pages 351-369
 Socialist Advertising. Health Education in East German Television  (Philipp Osten)....Pages 371-385