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pp. 200, “A study of visual sources, from 19th-century textbook illustrations to recent government AIDS posters, which finds that the history of our perception of the “beautiful body” is charged with anxieties about contagion and ugliness. It’s also entangled with political implications brought about by our interpretation of race as a medical category, says Gilman (liberal arts and human biology, U. of Chicago). A history both of medicine and of the aestheticization of the body. Many b&w illustrations. Originally published in Great Britain by Reaktion Books as >Health and Illness.
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| ISBN | 0801851971 | |
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| Number of pages | 200 | |
| Original Title | Picturing Health and Illness: Images of Identity and Difference | |
| Published Date | 1995 | |
| Book Condition | Very Good | |
| Jacket Condition | Very Good | |
| Binding | Hardcover | |
| Size | 8vo | |
| Place of Publication | Baltimore | |
| Edition | First edition | |
| Category: | History | |
| Author: | Sander L. Gilman | |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
pp. 200, “A study of visual sources, from 19th-century textbook illustrations to recent government AIDS posters, which finds that the history of our perception of the “beautiful body” is charged with anxieties about contagion and ugliness. It’s also entangled with political implications brought about by our interpretation of race as a medical category, says Gilman (liberal arts and human biology, U. of Chicago). A history both of medicine and of the aestheticization of the body. Many b&w illustrations. Originally published in Great Britain by Reaktion Books as >Health and Illness.
| Weight | 1 kg |
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