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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 then ""medicalized"" the modern home several decades later.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal:	Fuqua, Joy V., 1962-
Formato:	Electrónico eBook
Idioma:	Inglés
Publicado:	Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2012.
Colección:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:	Television in medicine. Patients > Services for. Hospital patients > Services for. PERFORMING ARTS > Television > History & Criticism. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Industrial Health & Safety. Patients > Services. Hospitalises > Services. Television en medecine. Television broadcasting > Health aspects. Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:	Texto completo

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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.