1st Edition
The National Health Service on Television The Picture of Health
Introduction, Katherine Byrne, James Leggott and Julie Anne Taddeo; 1. Reassuring or challenging? A survey of representations of the NHS in British TV medical drama since 1971, Tom May; 2. ‘Fraternising with the Nurses’: Optimism and Pessimism about the NHS in The Likely Lads and Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads, Kevin De Ornellas; 3. ‘Take Four Girls’: Angels and the Cultural Configuration of NHS Nurses and Nursing on British Television, Hannah Hamad; 4. Thirty-eight Years in A&E: Charlie Fairhead’s Evolving Representation of the Role of Nursing in Casualty, Frank Ferguson and Nerys Young; 5. The Indian Doctor and the Inverse Care Law: How South Asian Physicians Transformed General Practice in the National Health Service, Stuart Leslie; 6. ‘Is your doctor sympathetic? I don’t want one that isn’t’: Call the Midwife’s reimagining of the NHS General Practitioner, Julie Anne Taddeo; 7. ‘Fighting the forces of darkness - and dealing with the burden of everyday admin’: Horror hospitals and the satiric doctor/hero in Jed Mercurio’s Bodies (2004) and Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (2004), Katherine Byrne; 8. ‘The hospital is not your larder’: Representing the NHS in BBC TV’s Being Human, Barbara Sadler; 9. ‘I’m sorry. I really did try’: televised discomfort, physician mental health, and the ‘reality’ of austerity healthcare politics in This Is Going to Hurt, Cora Salkoskis; Index
Biography
Katherine Byrne is Senior Lecturer in English at Ulster University, Northern Ireland, UK.
Julie Anne Taddeo is Research Professor of History at University of Maryland, USA.
James Leggott is Associate Professor in Film and Television Studies at Northumbria University, UK.
