Disease and Representation: Images of Illness from Madness to Aids

· Cornell University Press
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347
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Sander L. Gilman, whose pioneering work on the history of stereotypes has become a model for scholars in many fields, here examines the images that society creates of disease and its victims.
Sander L. Gilman, whose pioneering work on the history of stereotypes has become a model for scholars in many fields, here examines the images that society creates of disease and its victims.

About the author

Sander L. Gilman is Goldwyn Smith Professor of Humane Studies in the Departments of German Literature and Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University and is also Professor of the History of Psychiatry at the Cornell Medical College.

Sander L. Gilman is Goldwyn Smith Professor of Humane Studies in the Departments of German Literature and Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University and is also Professor of the History of Psychiatry at the Cornell Medical College.

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