Speeding Up Slow Deaths: <br>Medical Sovereignty circa 2005
In this essay, I take up the question of the time of medicine in relation to two events in the U.S. from 2005—the Terri Schiavo case and Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. I consider both cases as “mediatized medical events,” that is, as events in which the practices of medicine received considera...
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University of Toronto Libraries
2011-10-01
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| Series: | MediaTropes |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mediatropes.com/index.php/Mediatropes/article/view/15744 |