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Hospital Land USA
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Sociological Adventures in Medicalization
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Artikel-Nr:
9780415748087
Veröffentl:
2016
Erscheinungsdatum:
24.10.2016
Seiten:
262
Autor:
Wendy Simonds
Gewicht:
386 g
Format:
229x150x18 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Wendy Simonds
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.
Introduction: Collaborating with the Dead