Health and Illness: Images of Difference

By Sander L. Gilman

This timely study demonstrates how images of beauty and ugliness have constructed a visual history that records the artificial boundaries dividing "healthy" bodies from those that are "ill".

"Gilman tells an excellent tale."--Jewish Chronicle

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0948462698
• ISBN13: 9780948462696
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.6"