Following the Broadcasting Health and Disease conference, organised by ERC BodyCapital at Wellcome Collection, London UK in 2018, a selection of presenters of contributed to a thematic issue of Gesnerus, the Swiss Journal of the History of Medicine and Sciences.
The thematic issue (Volume 76, n° 2, 2019) is fully open access.
Table of contents
Jessica Borge, Tricia Close-Koenig, Sandra Schnädelbach, Introduction. The Science of Television: Television and its Importance for the History of Health and Medicine pp. 153-171
Susanne Vollberg, “Because every recipient is also a potential patient” – TV Health Programmes in the FRG and the GDR, from the 1960s to the 1980s pp. 172-191
Angela Saward, ‘Television Discourses’: how the University of London’s Audio-Visual Centre professionalised and democratised the televisual lecture for postgraduate medical students pp. 192-224
Tim Boon, Jean-Baptiste Gouyon, Doing the Work of Medicine? Medical Television Programmes and Patient Behaviour pp. 225-246
Stefan Offermann, “Now even Television is Promoting Health?” On the Intertwined History of Television and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in the German Democratic Republic, 1950s–1970s pp. 247-278
Philippe Chavot, Anne Masseran, Surgical Emotions: How TV and Newspaper Coverage Furthered the Cause of Heart Transplantation in France (1968–1973) pp. 279-307
