In Sickness and in Health: Disease As Metaphor in Art and Popular Wisdom

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The nine essays and more than ninety illustrations that comprise this volume reveal how visual imagery has played a significant role throughout history in reinforcing and establishing definitions of sickness and standards for physical well-being. Each author demonstrates how works of art and the imagery of popular culture both reflect and reinforce the power of medical beliefs to define and to limit human behavior, and how art and medicine work together to communicate social directives in support of a perceived ...
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Overview

The nine essays and more than ninety illustrations that comprise this volume reveal how visual imagery has played a significant role throughout history in reinforcing and establishing definitions of sickness and standards for physical well-being. Each author demonstrates how works of art and the imagery of popular culture both reflect and reinforce the power of medical beliefs to define and to limit human behavior, and how art and medicine work together to communicate social directives in support of a perceived common good. The essays range in topic from the seventeenth century to the present day, utilizing an interdisciplinary, contextual methodology that reconstructs the issues of an era and examines works of art against historical events and ideas.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780874138573
  • Publisher: University of Delaware Press
  • Publication date: 9/28/2004
  • Pages: 224

Meet the Author

Laurinda S. Dixon currently holds the William P. Tolley Distinguished Teaching Professorship in the Humanities at Syracuse University.

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Table of Contents

Foreword 7
Introduction : visual prescriptions : in sickness and in health 9
Plague and politics in early modern Naples : the relics of San Gennaro 21
Bodily infirmity as social disease : the art of Adriaen van de Venne 45
Of vapors and vanity : the swinging eighteenth century 62
Cholera as plague and pestilence in nineteenth-century art 82
Decadent addictions : tobacco, alcohol, popular imagery, and cafe culture in France 101
Neurasthenia and the new woman : Thomas Eakins's Portrait of Amelia van Buren 125
Codes of consumption : tuberculosis and body image at the Fin-de-siecle 144
Curing degeneration : health and the neoclassical body in early twentieth-century France 166
Sporting modernity : artists and the athletic body in Germany, 1918-1934 187
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