Screening History
Author: Gore Vidal
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9780233988030
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGore Vidal's mixture of autobiography, reminiscence and observations on the cinema.
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Reducing the Odds
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1999-02-13
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780309062862
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThousands of HIV-positive women give birth every year. Further, because many pregnant women are not tested for HIV and therefore do not receive treatment, the number of children born with HIV is still unacceptably high. What can we do to eliminate this tragic and costly inheritance? In response to a congressional request, this book evaluates the extent to which state efforts have been effective in reducing the perinatal transmission of HIV. The committee recommends that testing HIV be a routine part of prenatal care, and that health care providers notify women that HIV testing is part of the usual array of prenatal tests and that they have an opportunity to refuse the HIV test. This approach could help both reduce the number of pediatric AIDS cases and improve treatment for mothers with AIDS. Reducing the Odds will be of special interest to federal, state, and local health policymakers, prenatal care providers, maternal and child health specialists, public health practitioners, and advocates for HIV/AIDS patients. January
Screening
Author: Angela E. Raffle
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-06-06
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0192528661
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScreening programmes involve the systematic offer of testing for populations or groups of apparently healthy people to identify individuals who may be at future risk of a particular medical condition or disease, with the aim of offering intervention to reduce their risk. For many years, screening was practised without debate, and without evidence, but in the 1960s serious challenges were raised about many of the screening procedures then being practised. Benefits and harms of screening must be measured in high quality trials, and the benefits of screening must be weighed alongside the negative side-effects. Concerns were raised about potential and actual harm arising when people without a health problem received dangerous and unnecessary investigations and treatments as a result of routine screening tests. Controversy raged, and it took some 50 years to achieve widespread recognition that evidence-based and quality assured programme delivery was essential, coupled with provision of balanced informed to enable informed choice for potential participants. Commercially motivated provision of poor quality and non-evidence based screening tests is increasing and screening remains a highly contested topic that has relevance in all health systems including for the general public and media. This book serves as a practical and comprehensive guide to all aspects of screening. Following the international success of the first edition, this second edition brings extensive updates and new case study material. The first section deals with concepts, methods, and evidence, charts the story of screening back to 1861, and covers all aspects of a screening programme and how to research the full consequences. The second section is a practical guide to sound policy-making and to high quality delivery of best value screening. The controversies, paradoxes, uncertainties, and ethical dilemmas of screening are explained, and each chapter is packed with examples, real-life case histories, helpful summary points, and self-test questions. Reference is made to the NHS, a leader in screening, but the primary focus is on universal principles, making the book highly relevant across the globe.
Screening the Past
Author: Tony Barta
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1998-08-20
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 031302362X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFilm and television have been accepted as having a pervasive influence on how people understand the world. An important aspect of this is the relationship of history and film. The different views of the past created by film, television, and video are only now attracting closer attention from historians, cultural critics, and filmmakers. This volume seeks to advance the critical exploration scholars have recently begun. Barta begins by addressing the various ways the past is screened for our understanding and relates the art of film to other media. The essays that follow deal primarily with the changing perspectives of political and social developments—and changing concepts of ideology, gender, or culture—in films and television programs made for historically shaped reasons. Chapters by filmmakers explore issues of context and intent in their own projects. Scholars and general readers interested in film and cultural studies will find this an important volume.
Screening European Heritage
Author: Paul Cooke
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-09-01
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1137522801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a unique examination of the way Europe’s past is represented on contemporary screens and what this says about contemporary cultural attitudes to history. How do historical dramas come to TV and cinema screens across Europe? How is this shaped by the policies and practices of cultural institutions, from media funding boards to tourist agencies and heritage sites? Who watches these productions and how are they consumed in cinemas, on TV and online?, are just some of the questions this volume seeks to answer. From The Lives of Others to Game of Thrones, historical dramas are a particularly visible part of mainstream European film production, often generating major national debates on the role of the past in contemporary national identity construction.
Neonatal Thyroid Screening
Author: Gerard N. Burrow
Publisher: Raven Press (ID)
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScreening Twentieth Century Europe
Author: Ib Bondebjerg
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-11-24
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 3030604969
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a comparative study of historical television genres in Europe, with a special focus on Germany and Great Britain and their way of narrating twentieth century European history. The book analyses our common European past and memory through central historical television narratives. Each chapter looks at how historical TV genres, fictional and documentary, have dealt with the most salient and defining periods, events and changes in the twentieth century— an age of extremes. Bondebjerg offers unique theoretical and analytical insight into the role of television in mediating and shaping the past. The book explores television’s creation of transnational cultural encounters across Europe in relation to our common and national past. The book addresses how television has influenced our understanding of history, collective memory and public debate over the twentieth century. It is fundamentally a book about the importance of the past in present day Europe and the centrality of media for transnational understanding.
Testing Treatments
Author: Imogen Evans
Publisher: Pinter & Martin Publishers
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 1905177488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work provides a thought-provoking account of how medical treatments can be tested with unbiased or 'fair' trials and explains how patients can work with doctors to achieve this vital goal. It spans the gamut of therapy from mastectomy to thalidomide and explores a vast range of case studies.
Screening the Body
Author: Lisa Cartwright
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780816622900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the fascinating history of scientific film during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and shows that early experiments with cinema are important precedents of contemporary medical techniques such as ultrasound.
Screening Enlightenment
Author: Hiroshi Kitamura
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780801445996
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShows how the US's expansive attempt at cultural globalization helped transform Japan into one of Hollywood's key markets. He also demonstrates the prominent role American cinema played in the political reeducation and reorientation of the Japanese.
