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A Bit of Hollywood in the Operating Room
By Caitjan Gainty, PhD (King’s College, London) The Science and Art of Obstetrics: The Forceps Operation and Episiotomy Repair DATE: 1934 LENGTH: 36 min [edited from full length of 64 minutes]...
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VD at the Movies: Public Health Service World War II Venereal Disease Films
By John Parascandola, PhD (University of Maryland) Know For Sure DATE: 1941 LENGTH: 22 min PRODUCER/PUBLISHER: Research Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, US Public Health...
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Screening the Nurse: Film, Fear, and Narrative from the 1940s to the 1970s
By David Cantor, PhD (Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social (IDES), Buenos Aires) The Army Nurse Evening Care Girls in White Unsuspected Nurse-Patient Interaction In the early decades of the...
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Darkening Day: Air Pollution Films and Environmental Awareness, 1960–1972
By Jennifer Lynn Peterson, PhD (Professor, Woodbury University, Department of Communication) Beware the Wind Countdown to Collision Don’t Leave It All to the Experts Public Enemy The Run Around Sources...
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Air Pollution Is a Human Problem: Mary Catterall’s Campaign for Clean Air in...
By Angela Saward, BA, MTA (Wellcome Collection) It Takes Your Breath Away DATE: 1964 LENGTH: 13 minutes ORGANIZATION: British Medical Association andBritish Life Assurance Trust for Health Education...
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Shared Suffering Onscreen: Animal Experiments and Emotional Investment in the...
By Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa, PhD (Seattle University) Animal Studies in the Social Modification of Organically Motivated Behavior Competition and Dominance Hierarchies in Rats An Experimentally...
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Challenge: Science Against Cancer or How to Make a Movie in the Mid-Twentieth...
By David Cantor, PhD (Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social (IDES), Buenos Aires) Challenge: Science AgainstCancer Alerte: Science ContreCancer Cancer In 1949 the U.S. National Cancer Institute...
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The Films of Virologist Telford Work
By Dwight Swanson Maturation of a Medic St. Louis Encephalitis Epidemic Space, Bears, Ticks, Tulips Pharaohs and Fellahs Kyasanur Forest Disease Monsoon Mosaic Fevers, Ticks, and Caviar DATE: 1942–1965...
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The Public Health Film Goes to War
By Michael Sappol As the 1930s gave way to the 1940s, cinema—public health films included—was having a moment. With the onset of World War II, that moment exploded. Film was thought to be an especially...
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Psychiatric Interview Films in the Age of Reform: Notes on the Depressive...
By Linnéa J. Hussein, PhD (New York University) Depressive Neurosis DATE: 1969 LENGTH: 63 min PRODUCER/PUBLISHER: University of Mississippi Medical Center CATEGORY: Clinical & Surgical, Educational...
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Promoting Birth Control in 1970s Colombia: Unlikely Alliances On and Off the...
Paula Orozco-Espinel, MA (University of Pittsburgh) La Bandera Verde: Programa Rural Pro Familia [The Green Flag] The City: Implications for the Future Vamos Donde Ellos [We Go Where They Are] Y...
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