Imagining Illness: Public Health and Visual Culture
Imagining Illness: Public Health and Visual Culture
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Abstract
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. This book explores the diverse visual culture of public health, broadly defined, from the nineteenth century to the present. Chapters in 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.
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Front Matter
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Part I Tracing the Visual Cultureof Public Health Campaigns
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Image and the Imaginary in Early Health Education: Wilbur Augustus Sawyer and the Hookworm Campaigns of Australia and Asia
Lenore Manderson
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Cultural Communication in Picturing Health: W. W. Peter and Public Health Campaigns in China, 1912–1926
Liping Bu
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The Color of Money: Campaigning for Health in Black and White America
Gregg Mitman
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Empathy and Objectivity: Health Education through Corporate Publicity Films
Kirsten Ostherr
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Image and the Imaginary in Early Health Education: Wilbur Augustus Sawyer and the Hookworm Campaigns of Australia and Asia
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Part II Mapping a Visual Genealogy of Public Health
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Contagion, Public Health, and the Visual Culture of Nineteenth-Century Skin
Katherine Ott
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Maps as Graphic Propaganda for Public Health
Mark Monmonie
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“Some One Sole Unique Advertisement”: Public Health Posters in the Twentieth Century
William H. Helfand
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Nursing the Nation: The 1930s Public Health Nurse as Image and Icon
Shawn Michelle Smith
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Contagion, Public Health, and the Visual Culture of Nineteenth-Century Skin
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Part III Building New Public Spheres for Public Health
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Visual Imagery and Epidemics in the Twentieth Century
Roger Cooter andClaudia Stein
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The Image of the Child in Postwar British and U.S. Psychoanalysis
Lisa Cartwright
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Performing Live Surgery on Television and the Internet since 1945
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Imagining Mood Disorders as a Public Health Crisis
Emily Martin
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Visual Imagery and Epidemics in the Twentieth Century
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End Matter
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