Disease and representation : images of illness from madness to AIDS /

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. In fourteen essays linked by a concern with the depiction of illness in culture and medicine, Gilman address...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gilman, Sander L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1988.
Temas:
Mental illness > History.
Psychiatry in art.
Diseases in art.
Sick > Psychology.
Mental Disorders > history
Mental Disorders > medicine in art
Psychophysiologic Disorders > medicine in art
Disease > psychology
Medicine in the Arts > history
Sick Role
Maladies mentales > Histoire.
Psychiatrie dans l'art.
Maladies dans l'art.
Malades > Psychologie.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
Mental illness.
Man > Sickness > Perception by man
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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. In fourteen essays linked by a concern with the depiction of illness in culture and medicine, Gilman addresses such diverse topics as the "mad" patient of the Middle Ages, art created by the mentally ill, the interaction between Western and Chinese medical traditions, and the representation of the AIDS patient.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiv, 320 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-312) and index.
ISBN:9781501745805
1501745808

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