Seeing Diseases: Visual Sources and the Meaning of History (NLM, 1990)
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Channel: National Library of Medicine · 2016 · Education
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. Produced by the National Library of Medicine. Learn more about this film and search its transcript at NLM Digital Collections: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/100961750 Learn more about the National Library of Medicine's historical audiovisuals program at: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/collections/films
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