Hospital Land USA
eBook - ePub

Hospital Land USA

Sociological Adventures in Medicalization

  1. 262 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Hospital Land USA

Sociological Adventures in Medicalization

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
eBook ISBN
9781317751304
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS
  8. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  9. INTRODUCTION: COLLABORATING WITH THE DEAD
  10. 1 CHET GOES TO CHEMO: THE SEMIOTICS AND SADISM OF THE MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
  11. 2 MORE ADVENTURES IN HOSPITAL LAND: AN ALTERNATIVE MEDICAL HISTORY
  12. 3 SICK STORIES: MEDICALIZED MEDIA, COLLECTIVE CULTURAL ANXIETIES, AND THERAPEUTIC VOYEURISM
  13. CONCLUSION: INSTEAD OF A HAPPY ENDING
  14. APPENDIX A: A BRIEF HISTORY OF HOSPITAL LAND
  15. APPENDIX B: DISEASE DISASTERS
  16. APPENDIX C: MELODRAMATIC MEMOIRS
  17. APPENDIX D: DEATH COMEDIES
  18. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  19. INDEX