Imagining Illness

<div>From seventeenth-century broadsides about the handling of dead bodies printed during London's plague years to YouTube videos about preventing the transmission of STDs public health advocacy and education has always had a powerful visual component. <i>Imagining Illness</i> explores the diverse visual culture of public health broadly defined from the nineteenth century to the present.</div> <div><br> Contributors to this volume examine historical and contemporary visual practices-Chinese health fairs documentary films produced by the World Health Organization illness maps fashions for nurses and live surgery on the Internet-in order to delve into the political and epidemiological contexts underlying their creation and dissemination.<br>  </div> <div>Contributors: Liping Bu Alma College; Lisa Cartwright U of California San Diego; Roger Cooter U College London; William H. Helfand; Lenore Manderson Monash U Australia; Emily Martin New York U; Gregg Mitman U of Wisconsin Madison; Mark Monmonier Syracuse U; Kirsten Ostherr Rice U; Katherine Ott National Museum of American History Smithsonian; Shawn Michelle Smith Art Institute of Chicago; Claudia Stein Warwick U.</div>