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Imagining Illness : Public Health and Visual Culture - David Serlin

Imagining Illness

Public Health and Visual Culture

By: David Serlin (Editor), Liping Bu (Contribution by), Lisa Cartwright (Contribution by), Roger Cooter (Contribution by)

Paperback | 19 January 2011

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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.
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"Imagining Illness fills a significant gap in terms of the visual culture of public health...the images are abundant and beautifully reproduced by the press. Given that this book is devoted to the image, it is heartening to see them reproduced here with such detail and expertise." -International Journal of Communication

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Non-FictionMedicineMedicine in GeneralHealth Systems & ServicesFamily & HealthPopular Medicine & HealthPublic Health & Preventive MedicineHistory of MedicineHome Nursing & CaringArts & EntertainmentGeneral Issues in Art

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