Psychiatric Power
The Post-Museum as a Site of Rhetorical Alignment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12739508 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Davi Johnson (Southwestern College - Kansas, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 344-362 |
| Publication date | 2008-11-08 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1479-1420 • E-ISSN: 1479-4233 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14791420802412423 |
| OpenAlex | W2077003523 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
This essay examines Brain: The World Inside Your Head, a traveling museum exhibit sponsored by Pfizer, to show how the dissemination of psychiatric vocabularies aligns corporate and individual interests. The spatial composition of the museum and its interactive exhibits interpellate visitors as active agents capable of expressing their experiences through the scientific vocabularies of contemporary neuroscience. The gentle and benevolent conditioning to a way of thought and a manner of speaking, rather than a “hard sell” approach, makes pharmaceutical remedy an obvious and desirable mode of self care
Aesthetics · Art · Human–computer interaction · Linguistics · Literature · Mode (computer interface · Power (physics · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Computer Science · Empathy and Medical Education · Philosophy · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.64 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |