Imagining Illness: Public Health and Visual Culture (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780816648238)

From seventeenth-century broadsides about the handling of dead bodies, printed during London's plague years, to YouTube videos about preventing the transmission of STDs, public health advocacy and education has always had a powerful visual component. Imagining Illness explores the diverse visual culture of public health, broadly defined, from the nineteenth century to the present.
Contributors to this volume examine historical and contemporary visual practices-Chinese health fairs, documentary films produced by the World Health Organization, illness maps, fashions for nurses, and live surgery on the Internet-in order to delve into the political and epidemiological contexts underlying their creation and dissemination.
Contributors: Liping Bu, Alma College; Lisa Cartwright, U of California, San Diego; Roger Cooter, U College London; William H. Helfand; Lenore Manderson, Monash U, Australia; Emily Martin, New York U; Gregg Mitman, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Mark Monmonier, Syracuse U; Kirsten Ostherr, Rice U; Katherine Ott, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian; Shawn Michelle Smith, Art Institute of Chicago; Claudia Stein, Warwick U.

Author: David Serlin
ISBN-10: 0816648239
ISBN-13: 9780816648238
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Language: English
Published: 01/19/2011
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.80h x 7.00w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2011
Reference and Research Bk News 06/01/2011 pg. 235