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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:
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
Thursday 27 July
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
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
Helen Littleboy (Hospital), Joanna MacDonnell (Casualty), Spencer Kelly (24 Hours in A&E)
(subject to work commitments)