Prescription TV
Subtitle: therapeutic discourse in the hospital and at home
By: Joy V. Fuqua
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822351153; 9780822351269
Subjects: Television broadcasting; Patients; Health aspects; Services for; Television in medicine; Hospital patients
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: television, hospital, home; title: Convalescent companions: hospital entertainment before television; title: Television goes to the modern hospital; title: Positioning the patient : the spatial therapeutics of hospital television; title: Television in and out of the hospital : broadcasting directly to the consumer-patient; title: Mediated agency : consumer-patients and Pfizer's Viagra commercials; title: Conclusion: our bodies, our (TV) selves.