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