Imagining illness : public health and visual culture / David Serlin, editor.

Other author Serlin, David.
Format Book
Publication InfoMinneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, ©2010.
Descriptionxxxvii, 285 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
Subjects
Health promotion--Audio-visual aids. --History.
Health education--Audio-visual aids. --History.
Mass media in health education--History.
Communication in public health--History.
Public health--Marketing. --History.
Medical illustration--History.

Contents Image and the imaginary in early health education : Wilbur Augustus Sawyer and the hookworm campaigns of Australia and Asia / Lenore Manderson -- Cultural communication in picturing health : W.W. Peter and public health campaigns in China, 1912-1926 / Liping Bu -- The color of money : campaigning for health in black and white America / Gregg Mitman -- Empathy and objectivity : health education through corporate publicity films / Kirsten Ostherr -- Contagion, public health, and the visual culture of nineteenth-century skin / Katherine Ott -- Maps as graphic propaganda for public health / Mark Monmonier -- "Some one sole unique advertisement" : public health posters in the twentieth century / William H. Helfand -- Nursing the nation : the 1930s public health nurse as image and icon / Shawn Michelle Smith -- Visual imagery and epidemics in the Twentieth Century / Roger Cooter and Claudia Stein -- The image of the child in postwar British and U.S. psychoanalysis / Lisa Cartwright -- Performing live surgery on television and the internet since 1945 / David Serlin -- Imagining mood disorders as a public health crisis / Emily Martin.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010019709
ISBN9780816648221 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0816648220 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780816648238 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0816648239 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Standard identifier# 40018973374