Imagining illness : public health and visual culture / David Serlin, editor.

Date:
[2010], ©2010
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Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2010], ©2010.

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xxxvii, 285 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Image and the imaginary in early health education : Wilbur Augustus Sawyer and the hookworm campaigns of Australia and Asia / Lenore Manderson -- Cultural communication in picturing health : W.W. Peter and public health campaigns in China, 1912-1926 / Liping Bu -- The color of money : campaigning for health in black and white America / Gregg Mitman -- Empathy and objectivity : health education through corporate publicity films / Kirsten Ostherr -- Contagion, public health, and the visual culture of nineteenth-century skin / Katherine Ott -- Maps as graphic propaganda for public health / Mark Monmonier -- "Some one sole unique advertisement" : public health posters in the twentieth century / William H. Helfand -- Nursing the nation : the 1930s public health nurse as image and icon / Shawn Michelle Smith -- Visual imagery and epidemics in the Twentieth Century / Roger Cooter and Claudia Stein -- The image of the child in postwar British and U.S. psychoanalysis / Lisa Cartwright -- Performing live surgery on television and the internet since 1945 / David Serlin -- Imagining mood disorders as a public health crisis / Emily Martin.

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    History of Medicine
    JO.AA9-10
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  • 9780816648221
  • 0816648220
  • 9780816648238
  • 0816648239