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Sander L. Gilman

Health and Illness

Images of Difference

200 pages,  6 x 9.25 
Series: Reaktion Books - Picturing History

Cloth $28.00

ISBN: 9780948462696   Published April 2004
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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
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