UID:
edocfu_9959156279402883
Format:
1 online resource (347 p.) :
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52 b&w photographs
ISBN:
9781501745805
Content:
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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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Plates --
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Preface --
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1. Depicting Disease: A Theory of Representing Illness --
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2. Madness and Representation: Toward a History of Visualizing Madness --
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3. The Rediscovery of the Body: Leonardo's First Image of Human Sexuality and Disease --
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4. Masturbation and Anxiety: Henry Mackenzie, Heinrich von Kleist, William James --
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5. Images of the Asylum: Charles Dickens and Charles Davies --
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6. The Insane See the Insane: Richard Dadd --
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7. The Insane See the Insane: Vincent Van Gogh --
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8. The Science of Visualizing the Insane: Charles Darwin --
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9. Medical Colonialism and Disease: Lam Qua and the Creation of a Westernized Medical Iconography in Nineteenth-Century China --
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10. Opera, Homosexuality, and Models of Disease: Richard Strauss's Salome in the Context of Images of Disease in the Fin de Siecle --
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11. Constructing the Image of the Appropriate Therapist: The Struggle of Psychiatry with Psychoanalysis --
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12. Constructing Schizophrenia as a Category of Mental Illness --
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13. Seeing the Schizophrenic: On the "Bizarre" in Psychiatry and Art --
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14. Seeing the AIDS Patient --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7591/9781501745805
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501745805
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