Disease and Representation

Disease and Representation
Author: Sander L. Gilman
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2019-05-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1501745808

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Sander L. 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.


Disease and Representation
Language: en
Pages: 339
Authors: Sander L. Gilman
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-05-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Sander L. Gilman, whose pioneering work on the history of stereotypes has become a model for scholars in many fields, here examines the images that society crea
Mental Representation in Health and Illness
Language: en
Pages: 394
Authors: J.A. Skelton
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-06 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

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How do individuals conceive illness and symptoms? Do their conceptions conflict with the physician's views of their illness, and what happens if they do? This b
Health and Illness
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Sander L. Gilman
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: Reaktion Books

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This timely study demonstrates how images of beauty and ugliness have constructed a visual history that records the artificial boundaries dividing "healthy" bod
Representations of Health, Illness and Handicap
Language: en
Pages: 271
Authors: Ivana Marková
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: Psychology Press

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The research described provides evidence that work needs to be carried out at the level of the community in bringing about changes in its representations of ill
Confronting AIDS Through Literature
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Judith Laurence Pastore
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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Offers readers an array of literature and of viewpoints on the use of literature to confront AIDS as a social, literary, and medical phenomenon.