| Description |
xiv, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Depicting disease : a theory of representing illness -- Madness and representation : toward a history of visualizing madness -- The rediscovery of the body : Leonardo's first image of human sexuality and disease -- Masturbation and anxiety : Henry Mackenzie, Heinrich von Kleist, William James -- Images of the asylum : Charles Dickens and Charles Davies -- The insane see the insane : Richard Dadd -- The insane see the insane : Vincent Van Gogh -- The science of visualizing the insane : Charles Darwin -- Medical colonialism and disease : Lam Qua and the creation of a westernized medical iconography in nineteenth-century China -- Opera, homosexualtiy, and models of disease : Richard Strauss's Salome in the context of images of disease in the fin de siècle -- Constructing the image of the appropriate therapist : the struggle of psychiatry with psychoanalysis -- Constructing schizophrenia as a category of mental illness -- Seeing the schizophrenic : on the "bizarre" in psychiatry and art -- Seeing the AIDS patient. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 273-312. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Subject |
Mental illness -- History.
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Psychiatry in art.
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Diseases in art.
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Disease -- psychology.
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Medicine in the Arts -- history.
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Mental Disorders -- history.
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Sick Role.
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| Indexed Term |
Man Sickness Perception by man |
| ISBN |
0801494761 paperback alkaline paper |
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0801421195 hardcover alkaline paper |
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