Traces the fascinating history of scientific film during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and shows that early experiments with cinema are impo

Lupton′s newest edition of Medicine as Culture is more relevant than ever. Trudy Rudge, Professor of Nursing, University of Sydney A welcome update of a text

Medical Materialities investigates possible points of cross-fertilisation between medical anthropology and material culture studies, and considers the successes

Engages critically with historical and contemporary representations of the medicalized human body.

When his teenage son Christopher, brain-damaged in an auto accident, developed a 105-degree fever following weeks of unconsciousness, John Campbell asked the at