Health and Illness
Images of Difference
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200 pages
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6 x 9.25
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
"Gilman tells an excellent tale."—Jewish Chronicle
Oxford Art Journal
"Gilman offers up the ambiguity of fantasies about health and illness for discursive redemption by his readers, providing insights without judgements which is another reason why the book make such an excellent teaching tool. It is a stimulating synthetic work which reaches a new level of originality, provokes new questions and points toward further directions."
Contents
Acknowledgements
1. How and Why do Historians of Medicine Use or Ignore Images in Writing their Histories?
2. Again Madness as a Test Case
3. The Ugly and the Beautiful
4. The Phantom of the Opéra's Nose
5. Mark Twain and Hysteria in the Holy Land
6. The Beautiful Body and AIDS
Towards a Conclusion
References
Photographic Acknowledgements
Index
1. How and Why do Historians of Medicine Use or Ignore Images in Writing their Histories?
2. Again Madness as a Test Case
3. The Ugly and the Beautiful
4. The Phantom of the Opéra's Nose
5. Mark Twain and Hysteria in the Holy Land
6. The Beautiful Body and AIDS
Towards a Conclusion
References
Photographic Acknowledgements
Index
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