Erscheint: Oktober 2026
Buch (Hardcover): Sachbuch
The National Health Service on Television
The Picture of Health
Verlag:
Taylor & Francis Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36719009
EAN: 9781032910017
Erscheint: Oktober 2026
Versand: Kostenlos
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CHF 269.–
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Beschreibung
This timely volume explores the close relationship television has always had with the National Health Service. Taking a chronological approach to examine the multiple ways in which TV has presented the NHS since the 1950s, the chapters delve into key moments in television history and how they reflect and shape our view of public health. These chapters span the key moments in television history that deal with this subject in many forms, from the 1960s soap opera to the 1970s hospital comedy, to the cosy 'NHS as heritage' offered by Call the Midwife. , via the melodrama of shows like Casualty. and the gothic hospital dramas of Jed Mercurio. Beginning with the early dramatisations of the NHS wards, which reflected storylines that combined romance, illness, and sometimes death, the book then shows how, over the years, the depiction of NHS doctors, nurses, and other staff as heroic and romantic has been countered with dramatisations of the impact of austerity cuts, hospital mergers, and competition from the private sector. This book will interest students and scholars of television and media studies, the history of television, the medical humanities, cultural studies, gender studies, and the growing area of narrative medicine.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Leggott James
- Julie Anne Taddeo
- Byrne Katherine
Zielgruppe
- Academic
- Postgraduate
- and Undergraduate Advanced
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 176