Distributed for Reaktion Books
Health and Illness
Images of Difference
Cloth $28.00
ISBN: 9780948462696
Published April 2004
For sale in North and South America only
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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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