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Yes, you can access Body, Capital and Screens by Christian Bonah, Anja Laukötter, Christian Bonah,Anja Laukötter, Anja Laukötter, Christian Bonah in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medicine & Global Development Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Year

2020

eBook ISBN

9789048540310

Edition

Topic

Medicine

Subtopic

Global Development Studies

Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Visual Media and the Healthy Self in the 20th Century: An Introduction
1. Playing the Doctor, Playing the Patient : The Performance of Health Identities in Live Medical Television, 1958
2. The BBC’s Children in Need Telethon : The Currencies of Compassion
3. Let’s Talk about S… : The Influence of Cinéma Vérité on Sex Education in French National Television around 1968
4. Measuring Subjectification : The Reception of Health Education Campaigns and the Evaluation Conundrum
5. Swimming the Crawl to Educate the Modern Body : Visual Material and the Expanding Market for Participatory Sports in the USA, 1890s–1930s
6. Inside Magoo (1960) : Comedic Commentary on 1950s America and Cancer
7. ‘One Feels so Much in These Times!’ Emotional Education and the Construction of New Subjectivities: Sex Education Films in Early 1960s GDR
8. Revealing Norms and Sowing Confusion: VALIE EXPORT’s Body
9. ‘Before Education, Good Food, and Health’ : World Citizenship and Biopolitics in UNESCO’s Post-War Literacy Films
10. From Colonial to Global : Visuals and the Historiography of Body Government beyond Europe
11. Zika Virus, Global Health Communication, and Dataveillance
Index

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