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Hospital Land USA : Sociological Adventures in Medicalization (Hardcover) (Wendy Simonds)
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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. Simonds illuminates broad cultural in/sensibilities and conventions around health care, mortality, and identity in ways that are intellectually engaging and useful for understanding and coping with Hospital Land.
Number of Pages: 224
Genre: Social Science
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Author: Wendy Simonds
Language: English
Street Date: October 27, 2016
TCIN: 51688976
UPC: 9780415748070
Item Number (DPCI): 248-28-5300
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