Hospital sepsis (1959)

 

Hospital sepsis
Title	Hospital sepsis
Year of production	1959
Country of production	États-Unis
Director(s)	Ralph P. Creer
Scientific advisor(s)	Carl W. Walter MD
Duration	28 minutes
Format	Parlant - Couleur - 16 mm
Original language(s)	English
Subtitles and transcription	English, French
Production companies	Churchill-Wexler Film
Commissioning body	American Medical Association, American College of Surgeons, American Hospital Association, Johnson and Johnson
Archive holder(s)	National Library of Medicine

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Main credits

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AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS
AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION
PRESENT

HOSPITAL SEPSIS
A COMMUNICABLE DISEASE

MEDICAL SUPERVISION, CARL W. WALTER, M.D., F.A.C.S.
ASSOCIATE CLINICAL PROFESSOR OF SURGERY
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL,
PETER BENT BRIGHAM HOSPITAL, BOSTON

THIS FILM WAS MADE POSSIBLE, AS A PROFESSIONAL SERVICE, THROUGH THE COOPERATION AND SUPPORT OF JOHNSON & JOHNSON.

Content

Medical themes

• Prevention and control of communicable (infectious, contagious) diseases. Prevention of epidemics
• Hygiene of air, water, soil. Pollution and its control

Theme

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Main genre

Documentaire

Synopsis

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Context

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Structuring elements of the film

• Reporting footage  : Yes.
• Set footage  : No.
• Archival footage  : No.
• Animated sequences  : Yes.
• Intertitles  : No.
• Host  : No.
• Voice-over  : Yes.
• Interview  : No.
• Music and sound effects : Yes.
• Images featured in other films : No.

How does the film direct the viewer’s attention?

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How are health and medicine portrayed?

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Broadcasting and reception

Where is the film screened?

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Presentations and events associated with the film

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Audience

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Local, national, or international audience

National

Description

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Supplementary notes

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References and external documents

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Walter CW. HOSPITAL SEPSIS—A COMMUNICABLE DISEASE. JAMA. 1959;171(13):1869–1872. doi:10.1001/jama.1959.73010310024028
Kirsten Ostherr, Cinematic Prophylaxis, Globalization and Contagion in the Discourse of World Health, Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2005

• John R. Brooks MD, Carl W. Walter, MD Surgeon, Inventor, Industrialist
  The American Journal of Surgery, Volume 148, November 1984

https://doi.org/10.1016/0002-9610(84)90317-9