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Political Discourse in the Hospital Heterotopia

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Carter, Melody (2019) Political Discourse in the Hospital Heterotopia. Nursing Philosophy, 20 (4). ISSN Online: 1466-769X

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Official URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nup.12...

Abstract

To what extent do we pay attention to the text and images that cover our hospital walls and do we offer any critique either as professionals or service users? In the past we might have expected to see functional or helpful instructions about where to go (or not to go) and in more well‐endowed buildings, perhaps we would see some works of art, sculpture, stained glass even, with the intention to encourage, distract or even forewarn us. However, it is now common in UK hospitals, for wall space to be used as a portal for a range of institutional political messages, that convey information about everything from its own values, behaviours to advertisements for products and services to requirements for rule following. Michel Foucault's ideas about Heterotopic space can help us to see that hospitals tend to fall (awkwardly) between being a public and personal health care space, and this is a possible explanation for the confused material culture and messages that are shared there. This paper draws on ethnographic methods to reflect on personal experience in order to offer a critique of the contemporary political discourse which has become 'literally' written onto our hospital walls.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Staff and students at the University of Worcester can access the full-text of the online published article via the UW online library search. External users should check availability with their local library or Interlibrary Requests Service.
Uncontrolled Discrete Keywords:	Hospitals, state medicine, heterotopic space
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
Divisions:	College of Health, Life and Environmental Sciences > School of Nursing and Midwifery
Related URLs:	https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1466...
Depositing User:	Melody Carter
Date Deposited:	19 Jun 2019 10:15
Last Modified:	19 Jun 2020 01:00
URI:	https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/id/eprint/8238

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