Health and Illness: Images of Difference
Jun 2013 · Reaktion Books
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This timely study demonstrates how images of beauty and ugliness have constructed a visual history that records the artificial boundaries dividing "healthy" bodies from those that are "ill".
"Gilman tells an excellent tale."—Jewish Chronicle
"Gilman tells an excellent tale."—Jewish Chronicle
This timely study demonstrates how images of beauty and ugliness have constructed a visual history that records the artificial boundaries dividing "healthy" bodies from those that are "ill".
"Gilman tells an excellent tale."—Jewish Chronicle
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Sander L. Gilman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Liberal Arts and Sciences as well as Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of more than a hundred books, including Doc or Quack: Science and Anti-Science in Modern Medicine (Reaktion, 2025).
Sander L. Gilman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Liberal Arts and Sciences as well as Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of more than a hundred books, including Doc or Quack: Science and Anti-Science in Mo...
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