Imagining Illness: Public Health and Visual Culture - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0816648239 ISBN 13: 9780816648238

Casa editrice: Univ of Minnesota Pr, 2011

Riassunto

From seventeenth-century broadsides about the handling of dead bodies, printed during London's plague years, to YouTube videos about preventing the transmission of STDs, public health advocacy and education has always had a powerful visual component. Imagining Illness explores the diverse visual culture of public health, broadly defined, from the nineteenth century to the present.
Contributors to this volume examine historical and contemporary visual practices-Chinese health fairs, documentary films produced by the World Health Organization, illness maps, fashions for nurses, and live surgery on the Internet-in order to delve into the political and epidemiological contexts underlying their creation and dissemination.
 Contributors: Liping Bu, Alma College; Lisa Cartwright, U of California, San Diego; Roger Cooter, U College London; William H. Helfand; Lenore Manderson, Monash U, Australia; Emily Martin, New York U; Gregg Mitman, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Mark Monmonier, Syracuse U; Kirsten Ostherr, Rice U; Katherine Ott, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian; Shawn Michelle Smith, Art Institute of Chicago; Claudia Stein, Warwick U.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

David Serlin is associate professor of communication and science studies at the University of California, San Diego.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Minnesota Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0816648239
• ISBN 13: 9780816648238
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 285
• Redattore: Serlin David