Chronic youth : disability, sexuality, and U.S. media cultures of rehabilitation

Chronic youth : disability, sexuality, and U.S. media cultures of rehabilitation / Julie Passanante Elman.

"The teenager has often appeared in culture as an anxious figure, the repository for American dreams and worst nightmares, at once on the brink of success and imminent failure. Spotlighting the "troubled teen" as a site of pop cultural, medical, and governmental intervention, Chronic...

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Main Author: Elman, Julie Passanante (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2014]
Series:NYU series in social and cultural analysis.
Subjects:
Teenagers > United States.
At-risk youth > United States.
Youth > United States > Conduct of life.
LAW > Media & the Law.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
At-risk youth
Teenagers
Youth > Conduct of life
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Medicine Is Magical and Magical Is Art: Liberation and Overcoming in The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
  • 2. After School Special Education: Sex, Tolerance, and Rehabilitative Television
  • 3. Cryin' and Dyin' in the Age of Aliteracy: Romancing Teen Sick-Lit
  • 4. Crazy by Design: Neuroparenting and Crisis in the Decade of the Brain.

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