Hospital land USA : sociological adventures in medicalization / / Wendy Simonds
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| Autore: |
Simonds Wendy <1962-, >
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| Titolo: |
Hospital land USA : sociological adventures in medicalization / / Wendy Simonds
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2017 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations, photographs |
| Disciplina: | 362.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Medicalization |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 1. Chet goes to chemo : the semiotics and sadism of the medical industrial complex -- 2. More adventures in hospital land : an alternative medical history -- 3. Sick stories : medicalized media, collective cultural anxieties, and therapeutic voyeurism. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In Hospital Land USA, Wendy Simonds analyzes the wide-reaching powers of medicalization: the dynamic processes by which medical authorities, institutions, and ideologies impact our everyday experiences, culture, and social life. Simonds documents her own Hospital Land adventures and draws on a wide range of U.S. cultural representations -- from memoirs to medical mail, from hospital signs to disaster movies -- in order to urge critical thinking about conventional notions of care, health, embodiment, identity, suffering, and mortality. This book is intended for general readers, medical practitioners, undergraduate and graduate students in courses on medical sociology, medicine, medical ethics, nursing, public health, carework, visual culture, cultural studies, and gerontology. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Hospital land USA |
| ISBN: | 1-315-79669-4 |
| 1-317-75131-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910149174403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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