Locating Medical Television: The Televisual Spaces of Medicine and Health in the 20th Century

Joel Danet, 11 février 2020

An International Conference organised by ERC BodyCapital & the Science Museum Dana Research Centre, 18-20 mars 2020

Medical television programs, across their history, have had specific relationships to places and spaces: On the one level, they have represented medical and health places: consulting rooms, hospitals, the home, community spaces, public health infrastructures and the rest. As television-producers have represented these places, there has been an interaction with the developing capabilities of television technologies and grammars. Moreover, producers have borrowed their imaginaries of medical and health places from other media (film, photographs, museum displays etc.) and integrated, adjusted and reformulated them into their work…

Intervention Medfilm : communication de Christian Bonah et Joël Danet, « On the road again. Car travel, the televisual narrative of medical practices in rural regions »

Les films montrés :

• Haute-Ariège le portrait d’un médecin de campagne (1970)
• La médecine aux champs (1972)
• Une femme médecin de campagne (1977)
• Le médecin de campagne (1981)

Voir la vidéo de la communication : https://podv2.unistra.fr/video/36245-christian-bonah-joel-danet-on-the-road-again-car-travel-the-televisual-narrative-of-medical-practices-in-rural-regions-locating-medical-television-conference/