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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Depicting disease : a theory of representing illness
  • Madness and representation : toward a history of visualizing madness
  • The rediscovery of the body : Leonardo's first image of human sexuality and disease
  • Masturbation and anxiety : Henry Mackenzie, Heinrich von Kleist, William James
  • Images of the asylum : Charles Dickens and Charles Davies
  • The insane see the insane : Richard Dadd
  • The insane see the insane : Vincent Van Gogh
  • The science of visualizing the insane : Charles Darwin
  • Medical colonialism and disease : Lam Qua and the creation of a westernized medical iconography in nineteenth-century China
  • Opera, homosexualtiy, and models of disease : Richard Strauss's Salome in the context of images of disease in the fin de siècle
  • Constructing the image of the appropriate therapist : the struggle of psychiatry with psychoanalysis
  • Constructing schizophrenia as a category of mental illness
  • Seeing the schizophrenic : on the "bizarre" in psychiatry and art
  • Seeing the AIDS patient.

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