NOTEBOOKS Esteve Foundation 42 Television fiction viewed from the perspective Medicine in Television Series of medical professionals House and Medical Diagnosis. Lisa Sanders Editor: Toni de la Torre The Knick and Surgical Techniques. Leire Losa The Sopranos and Psychoanalysis. Oriol Estrada Rangil The Big Bang Theory and Asperger’s Syndrome. Ramon Cererols Breaking Bad and Methamphetamine Addiction. Patricia Robledo Mad Men and Tobacco Addiction. Joan R. Villalbí The Walking Dead and Epidemics in the Collective Imagination. Josep M. Comelles and Enrique Perdiguero Gil Angels in America, The Normal Heart and Positius: HIV and AIDS in Television Series. Aina Clotet and Marc Clotet, under the supervision of Bonaventura Clotet Nip/Tuck, Grey’s Anatomy and Plastic Surgery. María del Mar Vaquero Pérez Masters of Sex and Sexology. Helena Boadas CSI and Forensic Medicine. Adriana Farré, Marta Torrens, Josep-Eladi Baños and Magí Farré Homeland and the Emotional Sphere. Liana Vehil and Luis Lalucat Series Medicine in Television Olive Kitteridge and Depression. Oriol Estrada Rangil True Detective and the Attraction of Evil. Luis Lalucat and Liana Vehil Polseres vermelles and Cancer. Pere Gascón i Vilaplana ISBN: 978-84-945061-9-2 9 788494 506192 42 NOTEBOOKS OF THE ESTEVE FOUNDATION Nº 42 Medicine in Television Series Editor: Toni de la Torre Cover illustration by Suxinsu (www.suxinsu.com). English version: Kevin Booth for ANKER Traductores This edition expresses the opinions of its authors, which are not necessarily the views of the Fundación Dr. Antonio Esteve © 2017, Fundación Dr. Antonio Esteve Llobet i Vall-Llosera 2. E-08032 Barcelona Phone: 93 433 53 20 Email: [email protected] http://www.esteve.org ISSN print edition: 2385-5053 ISSN e-edition: 2385-5061 ISBN: 978-84-945061-9-2 Legal deposit: B-10216-2017 Printed in Spain The Fundación Dr. Antonio Esteve (Esteve Foundation), established in 1983, has the main aim of encour- aging progress in Pharmacotherapy through communication and scientific discussion. The Foundation wishes to promote international cooperation in pharmacotherapeutic research and, to that end, organizes international multidisciplinary meetings where small groups of researchers can discuss the results of their work. Such discussions find an outlet in various publication formats such as the Esteve Foundation Symposia and the Esteve Foundation Discussion Groups. Other Esteve Foundation activities include organizing meetings to discuss problems of a more local scope, published as monographs or notebooks. The Foundation also participates in conferences, sem- inars, courses and other forms of support of the medical, pharmaceutical and biological sciences, not least among which is the Research Prize, granted biennially to the best article published by a Spanish author within the field of pharmacotherapy. Striking among the variety of publications that the Esteve Foundation promotes is the series Pharma- cotherapy Revisited, which compiles the main articles that laid the foundation of a specific discipline in several volumes, in facsimile edition. -III- NOTEBOOKS OF THE ESTEVE Foundation Nº 42 Contents Introduction Toni de la Torre ............................................................................................................................ 1 House and Medical Diagnosis Lisa Sanders ................................................................................................................................ 11 The Knick and Surgical Techniques Leire Losa .................................................................................................................................... 19 The Sopranos and Psychoanalysis Oriol Estrada Rangil ..................................................................................................................... 29 The Big Bang Theory and Asperger’s Syndrome Ramon Cererols ........................................................................................................................... 35 Breaking Bad and Methamphetamine Addiction Patricia Robledo .......................................................................................................................... 49 Mad Men and Tobacco Addiction Joan R. Villalbí ............................................................................................................................. 55 The Walking Dead and Epidemics in the Collective Imagination Josep M. Comelles and Enrique Perdiguero Gil ........................................................................... 61 Angels in America, The Normal Heart and Positius: HIV and AIDS in Television Series Aina Clotet and Marc Clotet, under the supervision of Bonaventura Clotet ................................... 69 Nip/Tuck, Grey’s Anatomy and Plastic Surgery María del Mar Vaquero Pérez ....................................................................................................... 75 Masters of Sex and Sexology Helena Boadas ............................................................................................................................ 85 CSI and Forensic Medicine Adriana Farré, Marta Torrens, Josep-Eladi Baños and Magí Farré ................................................ 93 -V- Contents Homeland and the Emotional Sphere Liana Vehil and Luis Lalucat ......................................................................................................... 97 Olive Kitteridge and Depression Oriol Estrada Rangil ..................................................................................................................... 103 True Detective and the Attraction of Evil Luis Lalucat and Liana Vehil ......................................................................................................... 111 Polseres vermelles and Cancer Pere Gascón i Vilaplana ............................................................................................................... 117 -VI- NOTEBOOKS OF THE ESTEVE Foundation Nº 42 Authors Josep-Eladi Baños Josep M. Comelles Doctor in Medicine Specialist in Psychiatry from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Founder of the Master’s in Medical Anthropology Specialist in Clinical Pharmacology and International Health, and of the Doctorate from the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona in Medical Anthropology Lecturer in Pharmacology at the Experimental at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili and Health Sciences Department (CEXS) Professor Emeritus at the Medical Anthropology at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra Research Center of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili Barcelona Tarragona Helena Boadas Toni de la Torre Sexologist and relationship therapist Critic of television series Writer and columnist for the Diari de Girona Author of the books Series de culto Girona and J.J. Abrams: la teoría de la caja Ramon Cererols Collaborator in El Món a RAC1, Arucitys Author of Descubrir el Asperger and La Vanguardia Conference speaker on Autism Spectrum Lecturer in Scripting Series Disorders at ICE of the Universitat de Barcelona, at the Universitat de Barcelona Universitat Internacional Menéndez Pelayo in Member of the jury of the Ondas Awards Barcelona, Mental Health Unit at the Consorci Barcelona Sanitari de Terrassa, Confederación Autismo España and several associations Oriol Estrada L’Ametlla del Vallès (Barcelona) Graduate in Psychology and holds a Master’s in East Asian Studies Aina Clotet Founder of the Espai Daruma Actress Culturally disperse writer and educator Graduate in Audiovisual Communication Mataró (Barcelona) from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona Adriana Farré Bonaventura Clotet Researcher at the Instituto de Neuropsiquiatría Director of IrsiCaixa y Adicciones (INAD) and in the Neurosciences Head of the Infectious Diseases Service Program at the Institut Hospital del Mar at the Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol d’Investigacions Mèdiques (IMIM) Badalona (Barcelona) Barcelona Marc Clotet Actor Graduate in Company Administration and Management; holder of an MBA from ESADE Barcelona -VII- Authors Magí Farré Lisa Sanders Researcher at the Instituto de Neuropsiquiatría Associate Lecturer y Adicciones (INAD) and in the Neurosciences at Yale University School of Medicine Program at the Institut Hospital del Mar Columnist for the New York Times Magazine d’Investigacions Mèdiques (IMIM) and Well Blog Lecturer in Pharmacology Inspiration and technical consultant in the Faculty of Medicine for the series House MD at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona New Haven (CT), USA Head of the Clinical Pharmacology Service at the Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol Marta Torrens Badalona (Barcelona) Researcher at the Instituto de Neuropsiquiatría y Adicciones (INAD) and in the Neurosciences Pere Gascón Program at the Institut Hospital del Mar Director, Molecular and Transnational Oncology d’Investigacions Mèdiques (IMIM) Laboratory at the Institut d’Investigacions Barcelona Biomèdiques Agustí Pi i Sunyer Head of the Medical Oncology Service María del Mar Vaquero at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona Doctor in Medicine and Surgery Barcelona Specialist in Plastic, Aesthetic and Repair Surgery Luis Lalucat Editor of the magazine Cirugía Plástica Ibero- Doctor and Psychiatrist Latinoamericana Director of the “Les Corts” Mental Hygiene Center Sociedad Española de Cirugía Plástica, Barcelona Reparadora y Estética (SECPRE) Federación Ibero-Latinoamericana de Cirugía Leire Losa Plástica (FILACP) Graduate in Medicine and Surgery Madrid from the Euskal Herriko Univbertsitatea (University of the Basque Country) Liana Vehil