Health and Illness

Health and Illness Images of Difference - Picturing History

Hardback (04 Apr 2004)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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

Book information

ISBN: 9780948462696
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Imprint: Reaktion Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 306.46109
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 200
Weight: 631g
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Spine width: 20mm

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