[ecrea] British Medical Television conference

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*BRITISH MEDICAL TELEVISION*

*27-28 July 2017, School of Media, University of Brighton*

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Despite its longevity, its broad appeal, and its resonance within the 
political and cultural national landscape, British medical television 
has not been the subject of much academic interest. This conference 
offers a groundbreaking opportunity for scholars across academic 
disciplines to engage with a strand of British television that has too 
long been ignored within the academy. We seek to consider questions such as:

  * What ideological and political purposes are served by TV programmes
    dealing with medical issues, and how do they shape public
    understandings of healthcare?
  * Do programmes like /Holby City/ and /Casualty/ serve as a vehicle
    for the BBC to tell its own story about the impact of government
    intervention and the ideological dismantling of the BBC?
  * What impact will the tendering out of drama programmes to
    independent production have on the potential ideological
    relationship between the BBC and national politics?
  * How are the political schemas of programmes like /Holby City/ and
    /Casualty/ reflected in other forms of medical television broadcast
    on UK commercial television?
  * How do genres such as reality TV and documentary engage with medical
    issues?

The conference aims to map out the rich history of medical programming 
on British television and to engage with the complex relationships 
between the NHS, British broadcasting, and the state.


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*SCHEDULE*

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*Thursday 27 July*

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*Keynote*

Patricia Holland: The Politics of Medical Television Across the 1980s.

*Historical Developments in Non-Fiction Medical TV *

Pascale Mansier: Similarities between French and British TV Medical 
Magazines in the Late Fifties.

Paul Bader: Power to the People: How Medical TV started talking to 
people rather than Doctors in the 1980s.

*Nostalgia and Medical Television *

Anne Jespersen:/The Royal /– Bridging the Gap Between Nostalgic 
Ignorance and Harsh, Realistic Knowledge.

Martin Fradley: ‘I can tell I’m not well… I think I’m a little bit 
poorly’: Working-Class Drama and the NHS in Shane Meadows’ /This is 
England ’86, 88, 90/.

Louise FitzGerald: Fluffy Cardigans and Starched Uniforms/: Call The 
Midwife/, Nostalgia and the NHS.

*The Mutability of Medical Television *

Fran Pheasant-Kelly: States of Abjection: The Politics and Practices of 
Jed Mercurio’s /Bodies/ and /Cardiac Arrest./

Teresa Forde: Nursing Back to Health?From /Angels/ to /No Angels./

Elizabeth Ford: The Representation of Doctors in Children’s Fictional 
Television Programmes.

*Friday 28 July *

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*Keynote*

Hannah Hamad: Mediating the NHS at 70: Exploring the Political Stakes of 
Contemporary Medical Television.

*Medical Television: Ethics and Policies *

Marta Lopera, Mònika Jiménez-Morales, Manel Jiménez-Morales: Binge 
Eating, Binge Watching: Narrative and Aesthetic Representation of Mental 
Health and Body Dysmorphic Disorders on My Mad Fat Diary.

Agata Korecka: The Man with 10 Stone Testicles: Corporeal Spectacle and 
‘Humilitainment’

Rony Armon and Colleen Cotter: Televising Obesity: The Role of Personal 
Stories in the Depiction of Policy Objectives.

*Popular Drama and Medical Discourse*

Ruth Deller: 30 Years in Holby: Analysing /Casualty/’s Anniversary

Katie Marshall, Naji Tabet, John Anderson: The Portrayal of Dementia in 
Television Soaps

Georgina Turner: ‘And that’s how you turn the lesbian death trope on its 
ear!’: /Holby City/ and the ‘Berena’ phenomenon.

*Production and Practitioners Session*

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/*Conference Organisers*/

Dr Louise FitzGerald (L.Fitzgerald /at/ brighton.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(L.Fitzgerald /at/ brighton.ac.uk)>

Dr Douglas McNaughton (D.McNaughton /at/ brighton.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(D.McNaughton /at/ brighton.ac.uk)>

Ms Joanna Macdonnell (J.Macdonnell /at/ brighton.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(J.Macdonnell /at/ brighton.ac.uk)>

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