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Imagining Illness: Public Health and Visual Culture
David Serlin (Ed.)
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Description for Imagining Illness: Public Health and Visual Culture
Paperback. Editor(s): Serlin, David. Num Pages: 320 pages, 69 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: MBN; VFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 255 x 177 x 18. Weight in Grams: 578.
From seventeenth-century broadsides about the handling of dead bodies, printed during London's plague years, to YouTube videos about preventing the transmission of STDs, public health advocacy and education has always had a powerful visual component. Imagining Illness explores the diverse visual culture of public health, broadly defined, from the nineteenth century to the present.
Contributors to this volume examine historical and contemporary visual practices-Chinese health fairs, documentary films produced by the World Health Organization, illness maps, fashions for nurses, and live surgery on the Internet-in order to delve into the political and epidemiological contexts underlying their creation and dissemination.
Contributors: ... Read more
From seventeenth-century broadsides about the handling of dead bodies, printed during London's plague years, to YouTube videos about preventing the transmission of STDs, public health advocacy and education has always had a powerful visual component. Imagining Illness explores the diverse visual culture of public health, broadly defined, from the nineteenth century to the present.
Contributors to this volume examine historical and contemporary visual practices-Chinese health fairs, documentary films produced by the World Health Organization, illness maps, fashions for nurses, and live surgery on the Internet-in order to delve into the political and epidemiological contexts underlying their creation and dissemination.
Contributors: ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816648238
SKU
V9780816648238
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About David Serlin (Ed.)
David Serlin is associate professor of communication and science studies at the University of California, San Diego.
Reviews for Imagining Illness: Public Health and Visual Culture
"Imagining Illness fills a significant gap in terms of the visual culture of public health...the images are abundant and beautifully reproduced by the press. Given that this book is devoted to the image, it is heartening to see them reproduced here with such detail and expertise." —International Journal of Communication