{"product_id":"imagining-illness-public-health-and-visual-culture-paperback-softback-9780816648238","title":"Imagining Illness; Public Health and Visual Culture (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816648238","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eImagining Illness\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePublic Health and Visual Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Serlin (Edited by), Liping Bu (Contributions by), Lisa Cartwright (Contributions by), Roger Cooter (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816648238\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 19 January 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 2 cm, 0.614 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eImagining Illness\u003c\/i\u003e fills a significant gap in terms of the visual culture of public health...the images are abundant and beautifully reproduced by the press. Given that this book is devoted to the image, it is heartening to see them reproduced here with such detail and expertise.\" -\u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Communication \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFrom 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. \u003ci\u003eImagining Illness\u003c\/i\u003e explores the diverse visual culture of public health, broadly defined, from the nineteenth century to the present.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eContributors 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eContributors: 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.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Toward a Visual Culture of Public Health: From Broadside to YouTube\u003cbr\u003e David Serlin\u003cbr\u003e I. Tracing the Visual Culture of Public Health Campaigns\u003cbr\u003e 1. Image and the Imaginary in Early Health Education: Wilbur Augustus Sawyer and the Hookworm Campaigns of Australia and Asia\u003cbr\u003e Lenore Manderson\u003cbr\u003e 2. Cultural Communication in Picturing Health: W.W. Peter and Public Health Campaigns in China, 1912-1926\u003cbr\u003e Liping Bu\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Color of Money: Campaigning for Health in Black and White America\u003cbr\u003e Gregg Mitman\u003cbr\u003e 4. Empathy and Objectivity: Health Education Through Corporate Publicity Films\u003cbr\u003e Kirsten Ostherr\u003cbr\u003e II. Mapping a Visual Genealogy of Public Health\u003cbr\u003e 5. Contagion, Public Health, and the Visual Culture of Nineteenth-Century Skin\u003cbr\u003e Katherine Ott\u003cbr\u003e 6. Maps as Graphic Propaganda for Public Health\u003cbr\u003e Mark Monmonier\u003cbr\u003e 7. \"\u003cbr\u003eSome One Sole Unique Advertisement\"\u003cbr\u003e: Public Health Posters in the Twentieth Century\u003cbr\u003e William H. Helfand\u003cbr\u003e 8. Nursing the Nation: The 1930s Public Health Nurse as Image and Icon\u003cbr\u003e Shawn Michelle Smith\u003cbr\u003e III. Building New Public Spheres for Public Health\u003cbr\u003e 9. Visual Imagery and Epidemics in the Twentieth Century\u003cbr\u003e Roger Cooter and Claudia Stein\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Image of the Child in Postwar British and U.S. Psychoanalysis\u003cbr\u003e Lisa Cartwright\u003cbr\u003e 11. Performing Live Surgery on Television and the Internet Since 1945\u003cbr\u003e David Serlin\u003cbr\u003e 12. Imagining Mood Disorders as a Public Health Crisis\u003cbr\u003e Emily Martin\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52574221238552,"sku":"9780816648238","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/imagining-illness-public-health-and-visual-culture-paperback-softback-9780816648238","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}