Wendy Simonds

Hospital Land USA

Sociological Adventures in Medicalization

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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.a This book is intended for general readers, medical practitioners, undergraduate and graduate students in cour… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-317-75130-4
EAN: 9781317751304
Produktnummer: 25433500
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 276 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 3'991 KB
Abbildungen: 40 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 38 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 2 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen