Original essays by leading media scholars and historians of medicine that explore the rich history of health-related films.

More than Illustrations: Early Twentieth-Century Health Films as Contributors to the Histories of Medicine - Martin PernickCelebrity Diseases - Nancy TomesSyphilis at the Cinema: Medicine and Morals in VD Films of the U.S. Public Health Service in World War II - John ParascandolaMedicine, Popular Culture, and the Power of Narrative: The HIV/AIDS Storyline on General Hospital - Paula TreichlerMandy (1952): On Voice and Listening in the (Deaf): Maternal Melodrama - Lisa CartwrightProjecting Breast Cancer: Self-Examination Films and the Making of a New Cultural Practice - Leslie ReaganAmerican Medicine and the Politics of Filmmaking: Sister Kenny (RKO, 1946) - Naomi RogersPassing or Passive: Postwar Hollywood Images of Black Physicians - Vanessa Northington GambleFrom Expert in Action to Existential Angst: A Half Century of Television Doctors - Rachel Gans-Boriskin and Joseph TurrowHollywood and Human Experimentation: Representing Medical Research in Popular Film - Susan LedererTechnicolor Technoscience: Rescripting the Future - Valerie Hartouni