Disease and Representation: Images of Illness from Madness to Aids

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