Format:
xv, 254 Seiten :
,
Illustrationen.
ISBN:
978-1-032-26107-2
,
978-1-032-28025-7
Series Statement:
Science and the arts since 1750
Content:
Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1920s when, amidst expanding industrialism, colonialism, and scientific research, the world endured a succession of pandemics in tandem with the rise of popular visual culture and new media.
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- About the Contributors -- Introduction: Picturing Pandemics -- Part I: Treating and Experiencing Disease: Medicine, Religion, and Myth -- 1 The Inception of "Science and Supplication": Architectural Programs, Devotional Paintings, and Votive Processions in Early Modern Venice -- 2 Anatomy, Microscopy, and Satire: Looking at Cholera in Early Nineteenth-Century England -- 3 Combating Cholera: Tanuki Scrotum and the Visual Culture of Disease in Nineteenth-Century Japan -- 4 Jean Geoffroy and the Conflicted Response to Childhood Epidemics in Fin-de-Siècle France -- 5 Spaces of Sickness: The Phenomenology of the Sickroom in Nordic Symbolist Art -- Part II: Reporting, Representing, and Interpreting Disease -- 6 "Invisible Destroyers": Cholera and COVID in British Visual Culture -- 7 Visualizing Contagion in Colonial India -- 8 Capturing the Invisible Enemy: Photographs of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic -- 9 Contaminating the "End of AIDS" in Contemporary British AIDS Media -- Part III: Public Health: The Politics of Body and State -- 10 Plague, Trade, and Governance in Eighteenth-Century Tunisia -- 11 Deconstructing the Story of a Contagion: Tuberculosis and Its Representations in Early Republican Turkey -- Index.
Note:
"This book originated during the early years of the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic as a session, "Epidemics of fear and the history of medicine", presented at the College Art Association conference in February 2021 ..." (Introduction, Seite 1)
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-003-29497-9
Language:
English
Keywords:
Epidemie
;
Pandemie
;
Krankheit
;
Medizin
;
Geschichte
;
Konferenzschrift
Author information:
Morton, Marsha
