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Cultural Anxieties in Medical Shows: House M.D.

Amanda Steffens' thesis examines how House M.D. addresses but doesn't fully resolve cultural anxieties on race, gender, and sexuality. The show displaces these tensions into solving medical issues. Through specific scenes, the series delves into power dynamics, confrontations, and societal expectations, blending them with medical narratives. This analysis sheds light on how popular media reflects and critiques societal norms and taboos.

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Cultural Anxieties in Medical Shows: House M.D.

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  1. Cultural Anxieties in Medical Shows: House M.D. Amanda Steffens

  2. Thesis House M.D. is able to address but not resolve cultural anxieties over race, gender, and sex by coupling these scenes with a scene full of medicine to displace the cultural anxieties into solving a medical issue.

  3. Race • House confronts Foreman about his criminal past • Tells him to break into the patient’s house • Cuts to shot of House in Clinic talking to Cuddy about treatment method for a patient

  4. Gender Power relations • Bickering on the elevator • House runs off and Cuddy follows • Seems like House wins struggle but in the end Cuddy forced him to follow her wishes • Cuts to shot of building then Chase injecting serum into patient to prepare for a CAT scan

  5. Sexuality • Cameron only hired because she is pretty “like having a piece of art in the lobby” • Didn’t have to work hard to get ahead in life, could’ve married rich • Cuts short when Cameron gets paged to go see a patient

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