Playing Doctor: Television, Storytelling, and Medical Power

by Joseph Turow

Book Overview

Prime-time medical dramas have stamped the American mind with an indelible gallery of physicians. Dr. Kildare, Ben Casey, Hawkeye Pierce, Trapper John, and Marcus Welby are more widely recognized than any living physician, and in many cases are more trusted as well. In Playing Doctor, a colorful and highly perceptive history of TV medical series, Joseph Turow offers an entertaining inside look at how these shows were created. He provides a detailed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195044908
• ISBN13: 9780195044904
• Release Date: March 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"