Health and Illness: Images of Difference By Sander L. Gilman

Health and Illness: Images of Difference

Sander L. Gilman
Reaktion Books, 1995 - 200 ページ

書名, 健康与疾病: 不同的图像/ (美)桑德.L.吉尔曼(Sander L. Gilman)著; 庄欣译. 濟南市: 山東畫報, 2008.

This timely study demonstrates how images of beauty and ugliness have constructed a visual history that records the artificial boundaries dividing "healthy" bodies from those that are "ill".

"Gilman tells an excellent tale."—Jewish Chronicle

Sander Gilman - Wikipedia

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Sander L. Gilman (born February 21, 1944) is an American cultural and literary historian. He is known for his contributions to Jewish studies and the history of medicine. He is the author or editor of over ninety books. Gilman's focus is on medicine and the echoes of its rhetoric in social and political discourse. In particular, Gilman investigates the constellations of medical, social, and political discourse that emerge at certain historical junctures.