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Prescription TV : therapeutic discourse in the hospital and at home / Joy V. Fuqua

Author
Fuqua, Joy V., 1962-
Published
Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
Physical Description
xii, 201 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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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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ISBN
9780822351153 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822351153 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822351269 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822351269 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references ([155]-201) and index.
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