Prescription TV: therapeutic discourse in the hospital and at home

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...

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Main Author: Fuqua, Joy V. 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham, [N.C.] Duke University Press 2012
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Summary: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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 201 p ill.)
ISBN:9780822394747
082239474X

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