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It traces connections from health education movies in early 20th-century Australia, New Zealand, and Indonesia to later medical drama depictions, analyzing how reliability and interests are formed.","Health,Medicine,and the MediaAuthor(s):Claire Hooker and Hans Pols  \nSource:Health and History,Vol.8,No.2,Health,Medicine and the Media(2006),pp.1-13Published by:Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine,IncStable URL:https://www.jstor.org/stable/40111540Accessed:23-10-201909:38 UTC  \nREFERENCES  \nLinked references are available on JSTOR for this article:  \nhttps://www jstor.org/stable/40111540?seq=1&cid=pdf-reference\\#references_tab_contentsYou may need to log in to JSTOR to access the linked references.  \nJSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars,researchers,and students discover,use,and build upon a widerange of content in a trusted digital archive.We use information technology and tools to increase productivity andfacilitate new forms of scholarship.For more information about JSTOR,please contact support@jstor.org.  \nYour use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms &Conditions of Use,available athttps://about.jstor.org/terms  \nAustralian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine,Inc is collaborating withJSTOR to digitize,preserve and extend access to Health and History  \nHealth,Medicine,and the Media  \nClaire Hooker and Hans Pols  \nFar more deeply than most of us realise,the media(in particularfilm,but also television,magazines,newspapers,and,more recently,the internet)has been related in many ways to the development ofmedicine and public health.For many of us,what we know aboutpublic health,medicine,and disease has come to us through themedia.The medical profession and today's public health policiescame into being in their modern forms during the second part ofthe nineteenth century,as medicine professionalised and as publichealth became defined,codified,and embodied in governmentbureaucracies as well as public and private institutions.Thesedevelopments have coincided with,and relied upon,the growth ofpopular media,which became able to reach audiences of a varietyof classes and backgrounds in unprecedented ways.  \nImages of physicians,as wellas images of health and disease,are disseminated through the modern media.While we know agreat deal about the way images have functioned in the history ofhealth and medicine,much remains to be explored with respect tothe role of the media in those histories.In addition to providingdiversion and entertainment,the media provides us with messagesabout health and disease(as television producers,and newspaperand magazine editors know,health content is followed by thepublic with great interest).Public health officials have often aimedto mimic the way the media entices the public by presenting healthinformation in ways that are entertaining.²The medical professionitself has only a limited influence on these representations.As aconsequence,medical and media understandings of health anddisease do not always coincide.  \nThis volume offers a smorgasbord exploration of the issuesarising from the at times amicable and at other times rather strainedrelationship between medicine and the media over the past centuryin the only-just-postcolonial zone of Australia,New Zealand,andIndonesia.It carries us from the health education movies made forIndonesians in the 1930sandMaoris in the 1950sto the sex educationmovies for the white Australian public catching up with the sexualrevolution of the 1970s.Its authors analyse portrayals of physicians  \nHealth &History,2006.8/2   1  \n# 2 CLAIRE HOOKER AND HANS POLS\n\nand medical knowledge in contemporary film and television,such asthe depiction of a physician diagnosing homosexuality in HeavenlyCreatures and a troubled female medical student in Charlene DoesMed at Uni.As a result,the articles in this volume stimulate us toexplore the relationship between 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