Hospital land USA : sociological adventures in medicalization / Wendy Simonds.

Author
Simonds, Wendy, 1962- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
  • ©2017
Description
xiv, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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    Subject(s)
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-237, 239, 243-254), filmographies (pages 230-232, 237-241) and index.
    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, collective cultural anxieties, and therapeutic voyeurism
    • Conclusion: Instead of a happy ending.
    Other title(s)
    Hospital land United States of America
    ISBN
    • 9780415748070 ((hardcover))
    • 0415748070 ((hardcover))
    • 9780415748087 ((pbk.))
    • 0415748089 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    2016017413
    OCLC
    965532767
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