Prescription TV : therapeutic discourse in the hospital and at home / Joy V. Fuqua.

Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.

xii, 201 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references ([155]-201) and index.

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.