Ontologies and natures : knowledge about health in visual culture / Milton Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gonzalez Rodriguez, Milton Fernando, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in public health.

Visual communication in science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2023]

Summary:

The book explores how images register the relation between societies and theirs and others' health epistemic ecosystems. The author focuses on presumably trivial objects, such as vlogs, a toy, or a facial cream, to show how nature is presumed and represented as part of the care and cure of the body.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Ontologies

Nature, Knowledge, and Health in Images

Structure of the Book

Notes

Part I: Images of Nature

Chapter 1: Visual Healing

Representations and Knowledge(s)

Images and Ancestral Sensoria

Chapter 2: Animated Epistemologies

Toying with Health and Nature

Medical Philately

Part II: Shapes of Nature

Chapter 3: Barcoded Pharmacopeias

Circulation of Endemicness

Infographics

Chapter 4: Gendered Epistemic Artifacts

Knowledge, Exchanges, and Images

Embodiment of Gendered Imaginaries

Part III: Sites of Nature

Chapter 5: Topological Panaceas

Aquatic Healthscapes

Spaces of Self-Discovery and Medicine

Chapter 6: Sensorial Interfaces

Hallucinatory Transmogrification

Transplanted, Disciplined, and De-stigmatized

Conclusion

References

Filmography

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Gonzalez Rodriguez, Milton Fernando Ontologies and Natures

ISBN:

9781666909500