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Hospital land USA : sociological adventures in medicalization / Wendy Simonds.
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Simonds, Wendy, 1962-
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English
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New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
©2017
Description
xiv, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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RA418 .S5553 2017
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Subject(s)
Meeks, Chet
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Health
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Meeks, Chet
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Last years
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Cancer
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Patients
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Hospital care
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United States
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Medicalization
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United States
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Social medicine
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United States
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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.
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Hospital land United States of America
ISBN
9780415748070 ((hardcover))
0415748070 ((hardcover))
9780415748087 ((pbk.))
0415748089 ((pbk.))
LCCN
2016017413
OCLC
965532767
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