"Hospital Land USA is analyzes hospital culture using images, narratives, to walk students through the experience of medicalization. Using a combination of analysis and anecdote, Simonds deconstructs hospital culture in order to compel critical thinking about medicalization. Sim…
1. Chet goes to chemo : the semiotics and sadism of the medical industrial complex -- 2. More adventures in hospital land : an alternative medical history -- 3. Sick stories : medicalized media, collective cultural anxieties, and therapeutic voyeurism.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: COLLABORATING WITH THE DEAD -- 1 CHET GOES TO CHEMO: THE SEMIOTICS AND SADISM OF THE MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX -- 2 MORE ADVENTURES IN HOSPIT…
"Hospital Land USA is analyzes hospital culture using images, narratives, to walk students through the experience of medicalization. Using a combination of analysis and anecdote, Simonds deconstructs hospital culture in order to compel critical thinking about medicalization. Sim…
"Hospital Land USA is analyzes hospital culture using images, narratives, to walk students through the experience of medicalization. Using a combination of analysis and anecdote, Simonds deconstructs hospital culture in order to compel critical thinking about medicalization. Sim…