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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fuqua, Joy V., 1962-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Television broadcasting > Health aspects.
Television in medicine.
Hospital patients > Services for.
Patients > Services for.
Télévision en médecine.
Hospitalisés > Services.
Patients > Services.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Industrial Health & Safety.
PERFORMING ARTS > Television > History & Criticism.
Hospital patients > Services for
Patients > Services for
Television in medicine
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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