Disease and representation : images of illness from madness to AIDS / Sander L. Gilman.
Material type: TextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1988Description: xiv, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0801421195
- 9780801421198
- 0801494761
- 9780801494765
- 306.461
- 306.46 19
- RC438 .G54 1988
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306.461 CUL A cultural history of the human body / | 306.461 CUL A cultural history of the human body / | 306.461 CUL A cultural history of the human body / | 306.461 GIL Disease and representation : images of illness from madness to AIDS / | 306.461 HEL Culture, health and illness : an introduction for health professionals. | 306.461 MEC Medical sociology : a selective view / | 306.461 OLI The politics of disablement : a sociological approach / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Depicting disease : a theory of representing illness -- Madness and representation : toward a history of visualizing madness -- The rediscovery of the body : Leonardo's first image of human sexuality and disease -- Masturbation and anxiety : Henry Mackenzie, Heinrich von Kleist, William James -- Images of the asylum : Charles Dickens and Charles Davies -- The insane see the insane : Richard Dadd -- The insane see the insane : Vincent Van Gogh -- The science of visualizing the insane : Charles Darwin -- Medical colonialism and disease : Lam Qua and the creation of a westernized medical iconography in nineteenth-century China -- Opera, homosexualtiy, and models of disease : Richard Strauss's Salome in the context of images of disease in the fin de siècle -- Constructing the image of the appropriate therapist : the struggle of psychiatry with psychoanalysis -- Constructing schizophrenia as a category of mental illness -- Seeing the schizophrenic : on the "bizarre" in psychiatry and art -- Seeing the AIDS patient.
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