Prescription TV : therapeutic discourse in the hospital and at home / Joy V. Fuqua.

  • Fuqua, Joy V., 1962-
Date:
2012
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.

Physical description

xii, 201 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents

Introduction: television, hospital, home -- Convalescent companions: hospital entertainment before television -- Television goes to the modern hospital -- Positioning the patient : the spatial therapeutics of hospital television -- Television in and out of the hospital : broadcasting directly to the consumer-patient -- Mediated agency : consumer-patients and Pfizer's Viagra commercials -- Conclusion: our bodies, our (TV) selves.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references ([155]-201) and index.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    CUT /FUQ
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  • 9780822351153
  • 0822351153
  • 9780822351269
  • 0822351269