Disease and Representation: Images of Illness from Madness to Aids

Sander L. Gilman

Published by Cornell University Press 1988

Disease and Representation

Images of Illness from Madness to Aids

Sander L. Gilman

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501745805

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About this book

Sander L. Gilman, whose pioneering work on the history of stereotypes has become a model for scholars in many fields, here examines the images that society creates of disease and its victims.

Author / Editor information

Sander L. Gilman is Goldwyn Smith Professor of Humane Studies in the Departments of German Literature and Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University and is also Professor of the History of Psychiatry at the Cornell Medical College.

Reviews

David Rothman, College of Physicians and Sugeons, Columbia University:

With skill and insight, Sander Gilman explores how people imagine disease and how disease is represented in their cultures. His essays are impressive in range and content, drawing on evidence from poetry, art, literature, and science over time and space.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Plates Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
1. Depicting Disease: A Theory of Representing Illness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Madness and Representation: Toward a History of Visualizing Madness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
3. The Rediscovery of the Body: Leonardo's First Image of Human Sexuality and Disease Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
4. Masturbation and Anxiety: Henry Mackenzie, Heinrich von Kleist, William James Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
5. Images of the Asylum: Charles Dickens and Charles Davies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
6. The Insane See the Insane: Richard Dadd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
7. The Insane See the Insane: Vincent Van Gogh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
8. The Science of Visualizing the Insane: Charles Darwin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
9. Medical Colonialism and Disease: Lam Qua and the Creation of a Westernized Medical Iconography in Nineteenth-Century China Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
10. Opera, Homosexuality, and Models of Disease: Richard Strauss's Salome in the Context of Images of Disease in the Fin de Siecle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
11. Constructing the Image of the Appropriate Therapist: The Struggle of Psychiatry with Psychoanalysis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
12. Constructing Schizophrenia as a Category of Mental Illness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
13. Seeing the Schizophrenic: On the "Bizarre" in Psychiatry and Art Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
14. Seeing the AIDS Patient Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 347
Illustrations
- Other: 52 b&w photographs
Keywords: Consumer Health & Fitness

eBook

Published: May 15, 2019
ISBN: 9781501745805