| | Cultural Sutures(Updated) Medicine and Media by Professor Lester D. Friedman, Audrey Shafer, Jonathan Michelmetzl, Arthur L. Caplan, Joseph Turow, Otto F. Wahl, Joy Vanfuqua, Kelly A. Cole, Norbert Goldfield, Stephanie Clark-Brown, Marilyn Chandlermcentyre, Gregg Vandekieft, Gregory Makoul, Limor Peer, Martin F. Norden, Christine Milliken, Kirsten Ostherr, Therese Jones, Faith Mclellan, Tod Chambers, Jonathan Michel Metzl Hardcover, 472 Pages, Published 2004 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3256-5, ISBN: 0-8223-3256-6
"Medicine and the media exist in a unique symbiosis. Increasingly, health-care consumers turn to media sources--from news reports to Web sites to tv shows--for information about diseases, treatments, pharmacology, and important health issues. And just as the media scour the medical terrain for news stories and plot lines, those in the health-care industry use the media to publicize legitimate stories and advance particular agendas. The e ..."
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