Health and Illness: Images of DifferenceReaktion Books, 1995 - 200 páginas 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 |
Contenido
Acknowledgements | 7 |
Again Madness as a Test Case | 33 |
The Ugly and the Beautiful | 51 |
The Phantom of the Opéras Nose | 67 |
Mark Twain and Hysteria in the Holy Land | 93 |
The Beautiful Body and AIDS | 115 |
References | 183 |
Photographic Acknowledgements | 197 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Adam van Noort aesthetic American analogies anxiety artist associated asylum audience beautiful beauty/health body breeds of horse caricature Charcot Christian condom contemporary context cultural fantasies Damascus death deformed discourse dying ecstatic patient erotic evoked face female fin de siècle gaze German Graves's Disease Guislain's Guislain's Vorträge health and illness historians history of medicine history of psychiatry Holy Land illus illustrated history impairment individual infection Innocents Abroad insane Jean-Martin Charcot Jewish Jews Joseph Guislain Krauss's late nineteenth century linked Madhouse madness male marked mental illness missing nose motto multiple nature nosology notion observer Paul Richer photograph physician physiognomy portraits present proof psychiatry public health poster race reading reality relationship representation represented risk role sense sexual simultaneous meanings social somatic specific stressed Sudhoff surgery syphilis Theodor Meyer tradition tuberculosis Twain twentieth centuries ugliness/illness ugly understood viewer visual image visual sources vocabulary woman