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Visual Knowledge in Medicine and Popular Film
- Literature and Medicine
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 17, Number 1, Spring 1998
- pp. 24-44
- 10.1353/lm.1998.0002
- Article
- Additional Information
Crawford's essay raises questions about simple, direct observation in medical practice and research by considering how audiences view two of William Dieterle's films, The Story of Louis Pasteur, and Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet. Through a reading of optical practices as well as a close look at the two films, Crawford points out how medicine and its ethics are enmeshed in medicine's optical technologies and its practitioners' ways of seeing.