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Camera Obscura (1981) 3 (1 (7)): 128–135.
Published: 01 May 1981
...Stephen Grosz; Bruce McAuley © 1981 by Camera Obscura 1981 Healthcaring From Our End ofthe Speculum Self-Health and Healthcaring Stephen Grosx and Bruce McAuky Self-Health (1974) and Healthcuring (1976) are two important films that present a feminist perspective on women’s...
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Camera Obscura (2002) 17 (2 (50)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2002
... in the Audiovisual Discourse of World Health” for publication. Contagion and the Boundaries of the Visible: The Cinema of World Health Kirsten Ostherr World Health and the Dialectics of Visibility and Invisibility Even a cursory glance at contemporary US film and television reveals...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 1–9.
Published: 01 May 2015
..., regarding what we see as some of the most significant questions facing studies of reality television, especially the specific studies dealing with health, housewives, “hot bodies,” and “hoochie mamas” that are included in “Project Reality TV.” © 2015 by Camera Obscura 2015 This content is made freely...
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (2 (116)): 165–186.
Published: 01 September 2024
... framework of structural violence that determines individual movement, remembrance, access to health care, and living conditions. In the two short films analysed in this article, Lifting the Mask (سقط القناع) by Najwa Najjar (Palestine, 2020) and MAY: Locked Down with “Eva” in Nakba Anniversary (أيّار...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 18–54.
Published: 01 May 1992
... 46,000 US women each year. Why this federal desig- nation of the DOD as guardian of women’s health? This conflation of defense against disease and national defense is more than a little disturbing. Indeed, recent events suggest that, when the military has considered women at all, it has...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 4–19.
Published: 01 January 1992
... and medicine are attempting to manage them. A model is provided by the media savvy and technological sophistication of such groups as ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), the National Black Women’s Health Project, and WHAM (Women’s Health Action Mobilization); their highly visual and theatrical...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 156–177.
Published: 01 January 1992
... in this country in the past year. In 1991, roughly 175,000 women will discover that they have breast cancer. And the numbers, inexplicably, keep going up. With roots in both the feminist health movement of the 70s, which urged and enabled women to learn about their bodies and become active...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 91–129.
Published: 01 May 1992
... and the US Public Health Service (USPHS) contracted with the Public Health Film Company for the film’s addi- tional use in commercial theaters. In order “to protect the films from misuse,” ASHA copyrighted them and the USPHS stipulated screening conditions “to safeguard the films...
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (3 (57)): 125–155.
Published: 01 December 2004
... Fernando Valley home by driving. Only in 128 • Camera Obscura her car can she move safely, free from harm, between the more affluent areas of the city. In the course of her everyday life, Carol drives to visit her nearby friend Linda (Susan Norman), to the local health club’s aerobic classes...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 4–17.
Published: 01 May 1992
... cancer-how these diseases came to be seen by specific imaging technologies and in turn by the public. TB X-ray screening programs were instituted in the form of a multivalent public gaze whose agents included the health care industry, public health agencies, communities...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 244–246.
Published: 01 May 1992
... completing her third year of medical school and is beginning her dissertation on the history of East African women’s health development and family planning programs. Brian Driscoll is systems and media programmer for the Dartmouth Medical School Interactive Media Laboratory. He developed...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 20–77.
Published: 01 January 1992
... and nature of the problem, and track change. To accomplish these functions, public health surveillance of illness and disease typically wants to know two things: who gets sick and how they get sick, thus yielding the classification of each case of disease into a “risk group” and a “mode...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 41–69.
Published: 01 May 2015
...- tions between one’s current body mass index and a diverse range of potential  illnesses and health problems — heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, osteoarthritis, and, of course, death itself.1 Obesity slides between what one is and what one may become, between the actual and the actuarial...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 125–133.
Published: 01 May 2013
... a fusion of theory and practice and aimed to enact film’s “radical aspiration,” to use Annette Michelson’s influential term, in concrete ways.8 The 1970s saw the organizing of feminist collectives in numerous areas — health care (Healthright), publishing (the Feminist Press), radio (Radio Free...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 33–61.
Published: 01 May 2017
... results from and effects the prevention of HIV. The series conflates narrative resolution with policy solution. Drawing on the techniques of social marketing and its consumerist ethos, the tele- vision series depicts behavior change as necessary for preserving the health of the individual...
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Camera Obscura (1981) 3 (1 (7)): 3–5.
Published: 01 May 1981
... introduction both to Metz’s recent work and to the scope of his contribution to film theory. In a review of two important films that have come out of the women’s movement, Self-Health and Healthcaring, Stephen Grosz and Bruce McAuley argue that the “alternative...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 240–243.
Published: 01 May 1992
.... Disadvantages include the high cost and the relative unfamiliarity of many health care providers with MRI. The final modality discussed is ultrasound and doppler ultrasound. These techniques have less spatial resolution than either CT scans or MRI, but images can be obtained very quickly...
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Camera Obscura (1979) 1-2 (3-1 (3-4)): 157–175.
Published: 01 May 1979
... in advertizing, basically focusing on advertizing as the new pornography of this culture. The range of subject matter is women’s health, rape and vio- lence against women, an alternative health system of the People’s Republic, labor history, violence against women...
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 212–241.
Published: 01 May 1994
... on women’s health, the insidious nature of this type of corporate address becomes clear. A Healthy Challenge: The National Nutrition Test was a half-hour television special created for Lifetime by the corporate marketing division of ConAgra’s Healthy Choice foods...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 183–195.
Published: 01 September 2010
... their responses to their very specific situations? Hima B.:  HIV/AIDS impacts all our lives. Half of those who are living with HIV are women, and 80 percent of the infected women are women of color. So I feel the urgency to talk about women’s health issues. I’m currently developing an online living HIV...