Wendy Simonds

Hospital Land USA

Sociological Adventures in Medicalization

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 839g
• ISBN-13: 9780415748070
• ISBN-10: 0415748070
• Artikelnr.: 43771478

Autorenporträt

Wendy Simonds

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Collaborating with the Dead
Chapter One: Chet Goes to Chemo: The Semiotics and Sadism of the Medical
Industrial Complex;
Chapter Two: More Adventures in Hospital Land: An Alternative Medical
History
Chapter Three: Sick Stories: Medicalized Media
Conclusion: Instead of a Happy Ending