Hospital Land USA

<p>In <em>Hospital Land USA </em>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. </p><p>This book is intended for general readers medical practitioners undergraduate and graduate students in courses on medical sociology medicine medical ethics nursing public health carework visual culture cultural studies and gerontology.</p>