Health and Illness Images of Difference

Name: Health and Illness Images of Difference
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ISBN: 9780948462696

ISBN-10: 0948462698

ISBN-13: 9780948462696

Edition: 1995

Authors: Sander L. Gilman

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This timely study demonstrates how images of beauty and ugliness have constructed a visual history that records the artificial boundaries dividing "healthy" bodies from those that are "ill". "Gilman tells an excellent tale."--Jewish Chronicle

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Reaktion Books, Limited
Publication date: 4/4/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Acknowledgements



How and Why do Historians of Medicine Use or Ignore Images in Writing their Histories?



Again Madness as a Test Case



The Ugly and the Beautiful



The Phantom of the Opera's Nose



Mark Twain and Hysteria in the Holy Land



The Beautiful Body and AIDS


Towards a Conclusion


References


Photographic Acknowledgements


Index