Disease and Representation : : Images of Illness from Madness to Aids / / Sander L. Gilman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Gilman, Sander L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (347 p.) :; 52 b&w photographs

Sander L. Gilman, whose pioneering work on the history of stereotypes has become a model for scholars in many fields, here examines the images that society creates of disease and its victims.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Plates -- Preface -- 1. Depicting Disease: A Theory of Representing Illness -- 2. Madness and Representation: Toward a History of Visualizing Madness -- 3. The Rediscovery of the Body: Leonardo's First Image of Human Sexuality and Disease -- 4. Masturbation and Anxiety: Henry Mackenzie, Heinrich von Kleist, William James -- 5. Images of the Asylum: Charles Dickens and Charles Davies -- 6. The Insane See the Insane: Richard Dadd -- 7. The Insane See the Insane: Vincent Van Gogh -- 8. The Science of Visualizing the Insane: Charles Darwin -- 9. Medical Colonialism and Disease: Lam Qua and the Creation of a Westernized Medical Iconography in Nineteenth-Century China -- 10. Opera, Homosexuality, and Models of Disease: Richard Strauss's Salome in the Context of Images of Disease in the Fin de Siecle -- 11. Constructing the Image of the Appropriate Therapist: The Struggle of Psychiatry with Psychoanalysis -- 12. Constructing Schizophrenia as a Category of Mental Illness -- 13. Seeing the Schizophrenic: On the "Bizarre" in Psychiatry and Art -- 14. Seeing the AIDS Patient -- Index