Health and Medicine on Television

Gerbner, George; Gross, Larry; Morgan, Michael; Signorielli, Nancy

doi:10.1056/nejm198110083051530

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“…In addition, fewer television characters now smoke cigarettes. Gerbner et a1 (44) recently reported that only 11% of television males and 2% of television females (major characters) now smoke on prime time TV. There is less smoking in situation comedies; more in crime and adventure programs; and most in serious drama (including mov ies), in which 13% of men and 4% of women smoke.…”

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Control of Cigarette Smoking from a Social Perspective

Syme

Alcalay

1982

Annu. Rev. Public Health

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Cigarette smoking is a behavior of individuals. Individuals begin to smoke, they become regular smokers, and they quit smoking. As we all recognize, however, this individual behavior occurs in a social and cultural context.If we wish to discourage the initiation of smoking and encourage the cessa tion of smoking once established, we must consider both the individual and social dimensions of this behavior. To date, most attention on smoking has been focused on the individual-his motivations and perceptions, his need for information, and his disease risks. In this paper we propose to review some of the ways in which social and cultural forces influence the initiation and establishment of smoking behavior as well as to suggest ways in which these same forces may be used to intervene and prevent smoking.

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Section: Social Influences On the Maintenance Of Smokingmentioning

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Control of Cigarette Smoking from a Social Perspective

Syme

Alcalay

1982

Annu. Rev. Public Health

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“…Add to this the fact that in such TV shows as Dr House or Grey's Anatomy TV doctors tend to veer deliberately from standard practices and in most cases of bioethical dilemmas act against professional codes of conduct [17,19]. Most patients have been inside a doctor's office, but hardly any have seen an operation theatre from inside, which means that what they have seen on TV replaces first-hand experience [5,20,21]. The fact that rare events such as intraoperative complications are shown frequently makes patients believe that they actually do occur often, which increases the level of fear.…”

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“…TV is for many a valuable source of information [3,4]. As a consequence, patients are likely to obtain their knowledge about physicians, treatment, and hospitals from TV, especially so since there is an abundance of diverse medical TV shows on offer [5]. With the possibility to stream or download almost any TV series at any time, everybody can watch their favorite doctor series whenever they like [6].…”

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Impact of Medical TV Shows on Preprocedural Fear of Surgical In-House Patients

Witzel¹,

Koch²,

Kaminski³

2017

Eur Surg Res

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Background and Hypotheses: The growing number of medical television series and the increasing amount of time people spend watching TV will have an influence on what they expect from their treatment in a hospital. We suspect that reality as presented in the media and the actual reality of hospitals are not always conceived of as two different worlds. Many medical TV shows present dramatic, life-threatening operations much more often than they occur in reality. Patients who frequently watch such shows might be induced to believe that even routine operations are often dangerous, which could result in higher levels of fear before such an operation. We suspect then that there is a significant relation between preoperative levels of fear and TV viewing habits. Methods: A standardized questionnaire was used to interview 162 in-house patients who had come to the hospital for an elective standard operation in a German hospital. They were interviewed 1-2 days prior to operation and shortly before discharge from hospital. The questions aimed at their social situation, their TV viewing habits with special consideration of medical TV shows, and the patients' preprocedural fear. Results: The links between levels of education, age, and gender on the one hand, and viewing habits on the other, which have been shown in cultivation research, are supported by our findings. Approximately 50% reported a relevant anxiety level above 4 (on a scale of 0-10). There is a significant association between levels of fear and TV viewing habits. Thirteen subjects (8%) indicated that they suffered the highest imaginable degree of fear, all of them frequent watchers of medical TV shows. Frequent viewers of medical TV shows were definitely more scared than all other patients (p = 0.039). The preoperative level of fear was highest in the age group of under 40 years and significantly lower (p = 0.0042) in the age group of over 70 years. Conclusion: The assumed effects of cultivation with in-house patients caused by watching TV series could be shown to be statistically significant. Watching medical TV shows increases the patients' preoperative fear.

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“…Many studies have found media representations of alcohol to be not only frequent (DuRant et al, 1997;Mathios et al, 1998;Wallack et al, 1990) but quite often something "presented in a non troublesome context and as an integral part of normative behavior" (Cafiso et al, 1982(Cafiso et al, : 1241. In that process, alcohol use tends to be represented as an unproblematic or neutral activity (Breed and DeFoe, 1979;Gerbener et al, 1981Gerbener et al, , 1986Wallack, 1980) and quite often one that is disproportionately associated with glamour and success to the extent that even relatively moderate media consumption may well result in substantial exposure to inordinately glamorized depictions of alcohol use (DuRant et al, 1997(DuRant et al, : 1131. As this study's analysis shows, dominant representations in Friday Night Lights stand as markedly nuanced in regard to manifestations of masculinity and associations of multiple outcomes with alcohol use and the interrelationships between the two.…”

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A beer a minute in Texas football: Heavy drinking and the heroizing of the antihero in Friday Night Lights

Kerr

2013

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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This article applies a qualitative framing analysis to the first three seasons of the television series Friday Night Lights, focusing particularly on its incorporation of heavy drinking into narrative representations of the player whose character is most consistently central to the game of football as fictionally mediated in small-town Texas over the course of those three seasons. The analysis suggests that over the course of that period Friday Night Lights embeds nuanced social meanings in its framing of alcohol use by that player and other characters so as to associate it with multiple potential outcomes. Yet among those outcomes, the most dominant framing works to, in effect, reverse a progression through which media representations historically evolved from a heroic model toward an antihero model, with heavy drinking central to that narrative process of meaning-making in such messages.

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Health and Medicine on Television

Cited by 268 publications

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Control of Cigarette Smoking from a Social Perspective

Control of Cigarette Smoking from a Social Perspective

Impact of Medical TV Shows on Preprocedural Fear of Surgical In-House Patients

A beer a minute in Texas football: Heavy drinking and the heroizing of the antihero in Friday Night Lights

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