Isbn: 9780801851971 - picturing health and illness: images of identity and difference (14 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. DJ has edge wear.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover and dust jacket. Shelf wear. Binding slightly cocked. Clean, unmarked pages. From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).…

Hardcover with dust jacket. VG/G. Gently edge worn wrappers with some curling. Good otherwise. 200 pages. 200 pp.

Hardback. Condizione: As new. 200 pp. dj. book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Publisher's brown boards. Jacket not priced or clipped. First American Edition. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. As New condition in bright, shiny As New Dust Jacket. No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Sharp corners. Fresh and crisp, apparently never read. Illustrated with photo and portraits. Bibliography. From the Dust Jacket: "Ours is a culture riddled with preoccupations about health and disease. In this timely study Sander Gilman demonstrates how images of beauty and ugliness have constructed a visual history which records the artificial boundaries that continue to divide 'healthy' bodies from ones that are ill. He shows how cultural fantasies of health and illness have come to be identified and defined by means of visual, aesthetic criteria -- for the healthy is now seen as beautiful and the ill as ugly. The history of our perception of the 'beautiful body,' Gilman finds, is charged with anxieties about contagion and ugliness and, furthermore, entangled with political implications brought about by our interpretation of 'race' as a medical category. Gilman looks at how nineteenth-century theorists collected medical and racial data from the shapes of noses, and at contemporary fears concerning syphilis, vividly personified in the diseased hero of Leroux's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. He also scrutinizes Mark Twain's frank account of a visit to the Holy Land for signs of implicit prejudice about the health or illness of the resident Arabs and Jews. These concerns are brought up-to-date when the author turns to pathological case histories and recent AIDS posters issued by governments worldwide. This is more than simply a history of medicine augmented by visual evidence.". First American Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's brown boards/Jacket not priced or clipped. 8vo. 200pp.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Original cloth. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket.

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Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 8vo pp. 200, "A study of visual sources, from 19th-century textbook illustrations to recent government AIDS posters, which finds that the history of our perception of the "beautiful body" is charged with anxieties about contagion and ugliness. It's also entangled with political implications brought about by our interpretation of race as a medical category, says Gilman. book.…

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hardcover. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.