num_pages: 200
description: A study of visual sources, from 19th-century textbook illustrations to recent government AIDS posters, which finds that the history of our perception of the "beautiful body" is charged with anxieties about contagion and ugliness. It's also entangled with political implications brought about by our interpretation of race as a medical category, says Gilman (liberal arts and human biology, U. of Chicago). A history both of medicine and of the aestheticization of the body. Many b&amp;w illustrations. Originally published in Great Britain by Reaktion Books as &gt;Health and Images of Difference. &gt; Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
language: English
title: Picturing Health and Illness: Images of Identity and Difference
titlecomplete: Picturing Health and Illness: Images of Identity and Difference
genres: Disability, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 2
publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press