Disease and Representation : Images of Illness from Madness to Aids / Sander L. Gilman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilman, Sander L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diseases in art.

Mental illness--History.

Mental illness.

Mental illness in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 p.) : 52 b&w photographs

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Plates

Preface

1. Depicting Disease: A Theory of Representing Illness

2. Madness and Representation: Toward a History of Visualizing Madness

3. The Rediscovery of the Body: Leonardo's First Image of Human Sexuality and Disease

4. Masturbation and Anxiety: Henry Mackenzie, Heinrich von Kleist, William James

5. Images of the Asylum: Charles Dickens and Charles Davies

6. The Insane See the Insane: Richard Dadd

7. The Insane See the Insane: Vincent Van Gogh

8. The Science of Visualizing the Insane: Charles Darwin

9. Medical Colonialism and Disease: Lam Qua and the Creation of a Westernized Medical Iconography in Nineteenth-Century China

10. Opera, Homosexuality, and Models of Disease: Richard Strauss's Salome in the Context of Images of Disease in the Fin de Siecle

11. Constructing the Image of the Appropriate Therapist: The Struggle of Psychiatry with Psychoanalysis

12. Constructing Schizophrenia as a Category of Mental Illness

13. Seeing the Schizophrenic: On the "Bizarre" in Psychiatry and Art

14. Seeing the AIDS Patient

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5017-4580-8

OCLC:

1129167844