Introduction: television, hospital, home -- Convalescent companions: hospital entertainment before television -- Television goes to the modern hospital -- Positioning the patient : the spatial therapeutics of hospital television -- Television in and out of the hospital : broadcasting directly to the consumer-patient -- Mediated agency : consumer-patients and Pfizer's Viagra commercials -- Conclusion: our bodies, our (TV) selves
Summary
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
