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Ours is a culture riddled with preoccupations about health and disease. This study demonstrates how images of beauty and ugliness have constructed a visual history which records the artificial boundaries that continue to divide 'healthy' bodies from ones that are ill.

Health and Illness Images of Difference Picturing

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      Publisher: Reaktion Books
      Publication Date: 5/1/1995
      ISBN13: 9780948462696, 978-0948462696
      ISBN10: 0948462698
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      Book Synopsis
      Ours is a culture riddled with preoccupations about health and disease. This study demonstrates how images of beauty and ugliness have constructed a visual history which records the artificial boundaries that continue to divide 'healthy' bodies from ones that are ill.

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