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Health and Illness
Sander L. Gilman
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Description for Health and Illness
Hardback. Ours is a culture riddled with preoccupations about health and disease. This study demonstrates how images of beauty and ugliness have constructed a visual history which records the artificial boundaries that continue to divide 'healthy' bodies from ones that are ill. Series: Picturing History. Num Pages: 200 pages, 91 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 631.
Ours is a culture riddled with preoccupations about health and disease. In this timely study Sander L. Gilman demonstrates how images of beauty and ugliness have constructed a visual history which records the artificial boundaries that continue to divide 'healthy' bodies from ones that are ill. He shows how cultural fantasies of health and illness have come to be identified and defined by means of visual, aesthetic criteria - for the healthy is now seen as beautiful and the ill as ugly. How did these categories acquire medical associations? The history of our perception of the 'beautiful body' is charged ... Read more
Ours is a culture riddled with preoccupations about health and disease. In this timely study Sander L. Gilman demonstrates how images of beauty and ugliness have constructed a visual history which records the artificial boundaries that continue to divide 'healthy' bodies from ones that are ill. He shows how cultural fantasies of health and illness have come to be identified and defined by means of visual, aesthetic criteria - for the healthy is now seen as beautiful and the ill as ugly. How did these categories acquire medical associations? The history of our perception of the 'beautiful body' is charged ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
Picturing History
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780948462696
SKU
V9780948462696
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99-15
About Sander L. Gilman
Sander L. Gilman is Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Medicine at the University of Illinois, Chicago, USA. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of over sixty books, including Smoke: A Global History of Smoking (Reaktion Books, 2004), and Franz Kafka (Reaktion Books, 2005).
Reviews for Health and Illness
Gilman tells an excellent tale. Jewish Chronicle Gilman offers up the ambiguity of fantasies about health and illness for discursive redemption by his readers, providing insights without judgements ... a stimulating synthetic work which reaches a new level of originality, provokes new questions and points toward further directions. Oxford Art Journal