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HOSPITAL LAND USA
SOCIOLOGICAL ADVENTURES IN MEDICALIZATION |
| By: |
Wendy Simonds |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£24.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1317751299 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781317751298 |
| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
31 October, 2016 |
| Pages: |
262 |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
2 Line drawings, black and white; 38 Halftones, black and white; 40 |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Routledge |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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