Health and illness: images of difference (Record no. 79729)
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| fixed length control field | 01650cam a2200217 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 0948462698 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 060710t1995 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0948462698 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Gilman, S.L. |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Health and illness: images of difference |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Reaktion Books |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1995 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 200; ill.,bibl.; BookFind |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Picturing history |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Hardback |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Focusing on how images of ""beauty"" and ""ugliness"" can be used to reconstruct the visual history of the artificial boundaries between the ""healthy"" body and the ""ill"" body, this book looks at the construction of visual stereotypes or images of difference. Specifically, it explores how cultural fantasies of ""health"" and ""illness"" come to be identified and defined by visual aesthetic criteria. The healthy becomes seen as the beautiful, and the ill as the ugly. Equally important, this discourse on pathology and the ugly comes to be employed in many other visual constructions of the period, such as those of gender, class and ""race"".The author concentrates on cultural objects from the history of ""Phantom of the Opera"" to Mark Twain and Sarah Bernhardt. Parallel medical traditions are outlined, from the history of cosmetic surgery to the history of hysteria. The book also examines AIDS representations across cultures in terms of the aesthetics of the represented body.Sander Gilman is the author of ""Disease and Representation"", ""The Jew's Body"" and ""Inscribing the Other"". |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | BODY IMAGE |
| 9 (RLIN) | 5432 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | HEALTH |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | HISTORY OF ART |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | MEDICINE IN ART |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| National Library of Medicine | Newcomb Library at Homerton Healthcare | Newcomb Library at Homerton Healthcare | Shelves | 10/07/2006 | WZ 330 GIL | HOM1469 | 31/08/2023 | 29/09/2022 | Book |