Imagining Illness: Public Health and Visual Culture
- ISBN-10
- 1452945950
- ISBN-13
- 9781452945958
- Category
- Communication in public health
- Pages
- 285
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Author
- David Serlin
Description
From 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. Imagining Illness explores the diverse visual culture of public health, broadly defined, from the nineteenth century to the present. Contributors 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.
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