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Hospital Land USA

By Wendy Simonds

Hospital Land USA Medicine

Hospital Land USA

By Wendy Simonds

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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.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
274
Release Date:
2016-11-01
Publication Date:
2016-11-01
Publisher:
Routledge
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0415748070
ISBN13:
9780415748070
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
552 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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