Seeing diseases: visual sources and the meaning of history
- Collection:
- NLM Publications and Productions
- Series Title(s):
- NLM historical lecture
- Contributor(s):
- Gilman, Sander L. National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
- Publication:
- Bethesda, Md. : National Library of Medicine, 1990
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Moving image
- Subject(s):
- Medicine in Art Mental Disorders -- history Disease -- psychology
- Abstract:
- During this lecture on "images as cultural history," Dr. Sander Gilman traces the changes in visual representations of persons who are diseased from the eighteenth century through the twentieth century. He focuses on the imagery of psychiatric illness using an array of paintings, lithographs, drawings, and illustrations. Beginning with Hogarth's "The rake's progress" (18th century) and concluding with images representing persons with AIDS, Dr. Gilman provides provocative reasons for using images to study changes in perceptions of health and disease over time.
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Extent:
- 056 min.
- Color:
- Color
- Sound:
- Sound
- Credits:
- Sander Gilman.
- Technique:
- Live action
- NLM Unique ID:
- 100961750 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/100961750