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7%OFFJoy V. Fuqua - Prescription TV: Therapeutic Discourse in the Hospital and at Home - 9780822351269 - V9780822351269
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Prescription TV: Therapeutic Discourse in the Hospital and at Home

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Description for Prescription TV: Therapeutic Discourse in the Hospital and at Home Paperback. Tracing the history of television as a therapeutic device, Joy V. Fuqua describes how TVs came to make hospitals seem more like home and then "medicalized" the modern home several decades later. Num Pages: 216 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304. Therapeutic Discourse in the Hospital and at Home. 224 pages, 15 illustrations. Traces the history of television as a therapeutic device. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: APT; JFD. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 13. Weight: 304.
Tracing the history of television as a therapeutic device, Joy V. Fuqua describes how TVs came to make hospitals seem more like home and, later, "medicalized" the modern home. She examines the introduction of television into the private hospital room in the late 1940s and 1950s and then moves forward several decades to consider the direct-to-consumer prescription drug commercials legalized in 1997. Fuqua explains how, as hospital administrators and designers sought ways of making the hospital a more inviting, personalized space, TV sets came to figure in the architecture and layout of health care facilities. Television manufacturers seized on the ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822351269
SKU
V9780822351269
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About Joy V. Fuqua
Joy V. Fuqua is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Queens College, City University of New York.

Reviews for Prescription TV: Therapeutic Discourse in the Hospital and at Home
"Prescription TV is a beautifully written and persuasive account of television’s medical applications at home and in the hospital over the decades. Joy V. Fuqua's prose moves deftly between individual case studies and critical analysis of the forces that have transformed TV viewers into patients and consumers. Medicine today is big business, and anyone interested in the way television structures ... Read more

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