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Prescription TV : therapeutic discourse in the hospital and at home / Joy V. Fuqua.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fuqua, Joy V., 1962-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Television broadcasting--Health aspects.
- Television broadcasting.
- Television in medicine.
- Hospital patients--Services for.
- Hospital patients.
- Patients--Services for.
- Patients.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (216 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Tracing the history of television as a therapeutic device, Joy V. Fuqua describes how TVs came to make hospitals seem more like home and then ""medicalized"" the modern home several decades later.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613854476
- 9781283542029
- 1283542021
- 9780822394747
- 082239474X
- OCLC:
- 796786702
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