Fuqua, Joy V., 1962-

Prescription TV therapeutic discourse in the hospital and at home / : Joy V. Fuqua. - Durham : Duke University Press, ©2012

Includes bibliographical references ([155]-201) and index.

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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Television broadcasting--Health aspects.
Television in medicine.
Hospital patients--Services for.
Patients--Services for.


Print books.

PN1992.55 / .F87 2012