TY - BOOK AU - Fuqua,Joy V. TI - Prescription TV: therapeutic discourse in the hospital and at home AV - PN1992.55 .F87 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - Durham PB - Duke University Press KW - Television broadcasting KW - Health aspects KW - Television in medicine KW - Hospital patients KW - Services for KW - Patients KW - local KW - Print books N1 - 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; License restrictions may limit access ER -