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Author: Serlin, David
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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.

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Title Imagining Illness: Public Health and Visual Culture
Author David Serlin (Editor); Contribution by Liping Bu; Contribution by Lisa Cartwright
Binding Hardback
Edition number 1st
Edition 1
Pages 320
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher University of Minnesota Press
Publication date 2011-01
Illustrated Yes
ISBN 9780816648221 / 0816648220
Dimensions 10 x 7 x 0.9 in (25.40 x 17.78 x 2.29 cm)
Category Medical / Nursing
Library of Congress subjects History, 19th Century, History, 20th Century
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010019709
Dewey Decimal Code 362.106

About the author

David Serlin is associate professor of communication and science studies at the University of California, San Diego.

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