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020			_a0948462698
100			_aGilman, S.L.
245		0	_aHealth and illness: images of difference
260			_aLondon _bReaktion Books _c1995
300			_a200; ill.,bibl.; BookFind
490			_aPicturing history
520			_aHardback
520			_aFocusing on how images of ""beauty"" and ""ugliness"" can be used to reconstruct the visual history of the artificial boundaries between the ""healthy"" body and the ""ill"" body, this book looks at the construction of visual stereotypes or images of difference. Specifically, it explores how cultural fantasies of ""health"" and ""illness"" come to be identified and defined by visual aesthetic criteria. The healthy becomes seen as the beautiful, and the ill as the ugly. Equally important, this discourse on pathology and the ugly comes to be employed in many other visual constructions of the period, such as those of gender, class and ""race"".The author concentrates on cultural objects from the history of ""Phantom of the Opera"" to Mark Twain and Sarah Bernhardt. Parallel medical traditions are outlined, from the history of cosmetic surgery to the history of hysteria. The book also examines AIDS representations across cultures in terms of the aesthetics of the represented body.Sander Gilman is the author of ""Disease and Representation"", ""The Jew's Body"" and ""Inscribing the Other"".
650			_aBODY IMAGE _95432
650			_aHEALTH
650			_aHISTORY OF ART
650			_aMEDICINE IN ART
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