Health and Illness: Images of Difference

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Reaktion 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
 

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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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Sander L. Gilman is distinguished professor emeritus of the Liberal Arts and Sciences as well as emeritus professor of psychiatry at Emory University. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of more than one hundred books, including Jurek Becker: A Life in Five Worlds, Health and Illness: Images of Difference, and Smoke: A Global History of Smoking.

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