Prescription TV : Therapeutic Discourse in the Hospital and at Home /

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Tracing the history of television as a therapeutic device, Joy V. Fuqua describes how TVs came to make hospitals seem more like home and, later, "medicalized" the modern home. She examines the introduction of television into the private hospital room in the late 1940s and 1950s and then mo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fuqua, Joy V. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2012]
Temas:
Hospital patients > Services for.
Patients > Services for.
Television broadcasting > Health aspects.
Television in medicine.
PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION Television, Hospital, Home
  • 1. Convalescent Companions: Hospital Entertainment before Television
  • 2. Television Goes to the Modern Hospital
  • 3. Positioning the Patient: The Spatial Therapeutics of Hospital Television
  • 4. Television in and out of the Hospital: Broadcasting Directly to the Consumer-Patient
  • 5. Mediated Agency: Consumer-Patients and Pfizer's Viagra Commercials
  • CONCLUSION Our Bodies, Our (tv) Selves
  • NOTES
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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