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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Serlin, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health promotion--Audio-visual aids--History.

Health promotion.

Health education--Audio-visual aids--History.

Health education.

Mass media in health education--History.

Mass media in health education.

Communication in public health--History.

Communication in public health.

Public health campaigns--History.

Public health campaigns.

Medical illustration--History.

Medical illustration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781452945958

1452945950

9780816675333

0816675333

OCLC:

714568563