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Prescription TV : therapeutic discourse in the hospital and at home
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Prescription TV : therapeutic discourse in the hospital and at home / Joy V. Fuqua.
ISBN
9780822351153 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822351153 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822351269 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822351269 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
Physical Description
xii, 201 p. 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 10, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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