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Hospital land USA : sociological adventures in medicalization / Wendy Simonds.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simonds, Wendy, 1962- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicalization.
- Social medicine.
- Sociology, Medical.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- Medicalization.
- Sociology, Medical.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
- Contents:
- Introduction : collaborating with the dead
- Chet goes to chemo : the semiotics and sadism of the medical industrial complex
- More adventures in hospital land : an alternative medical history
- Sick stories : medicalized media
- Conclusion : instead of a happy ending.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415748070
- 0415748070
- 9780415748087
- 0415748089
- OCLC:
- 965532767
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