Chronic youth disability, sexuality, and U.S. media cultures of rehabilitation
Spotlighting the "troubled teen" as a site of pop cultural, medical, and governmental intervention, this book traces the teenager as a figure through which broad threats to the normative order have been negotiated and contained.
1 online resource (xi, 243 s.)
9781479841103, 1479841102
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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: From Rebel to Patient 1 1 Medicine Is Magical and Magical Is Art: Liberation and Overcoming in The Boy in the Plastic Bubble 29 2 After School Special Education: Sex, Tolerance, and Rehabilitative Television 63 3 Cryin' and Dyin' in the Age of Aliteracy: Romancing Teen Sick-Lit 93 4 Crazy by Design: Neuroparenting and Crisis in the Decade of the Brain 131 Conclusion: Susceptible Citizens in the Age of Wiihabilitation 167 Notes 177 Bibliography 205 Index 231 About the Author 243