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Imagining Illness Public Health and Visual Culture

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ISBN-10: 0816648239

ISBN-13: 9780816648238

Edition: 2010

Authors: David Serlin, Liping Bu, Lisa Cartwright, Roger Cooter, William H. Helfand

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List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 1/19/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

David Serlinis a research historian and exhibitions curator in the History of Medicine Division at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland.Stephen Mihmis a doctoral candidate in history at New York University.

Liping Bu is Professor of History at Alma College, Michigan. Her publications include Making the World Like Us: Education, Cultural Expansion, and the American Century . Darwin H. Stapleton is Professor of History at University of Massachusetts-Boston, and Executive Director Emeritus of the Rockefeller Archive Center, USA. He is the editor of Creating a Tradition of Biomedical Research: Contributions to the History of The Rockefeller University . Ka-che Yip is Professor of History at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA. Recent publications include, as editor, Disease, Colonialism, and the State: Malaria in East Asian History .

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Toward a Visual Culture of Public Health From Broadside to YouTube
Tracing the Visual Culture of Public Health Campaigns
Image and the Imaginary in Early Health Education
Wilbur Augustus Sawyer and the Hookworm Campaigns of Australia and Asia
Cultural Communication in Picturing Health
W. W. Peter and Public Health Campaigns in China, 1912-1926
The Color of Money
Campaigning for Health in Black and White America
Empathy and Objectivity
Health Education through Corporate Publicity Films
Mapping a Visual Genealogy of Public Health
Contagion, Public Health, and the Visual Culture of Nineteenth-Century Skin
Maps as Graphic Propaganda for Public Health
"Some One Sole Unique Advertisement"
Public Health Posters in the Twentieth Century
Nursing the Nation
The 1930s Public Health Nurse as Image and Icon
Building New Public Spheres for Public Health
Visual Imagery and Epidemics in the Twentieth Century
The Image of the Child in Postwar British and U.S. Psychoanalysis
Performing Live Surgery on Television and the Internet since 1945
Imagining Mood Disorders as a Public Health Crisis
Contributors
Index