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Book Reviews BOOK REVIEWS Sander L. Gilman, Disease and Representation: Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1988, 347 pp., $ 37.50 (cloth), $13.95 (paper). In many respects, this work illustrates the essential wholeness of knowledge and the unique human attribute of trying to understand what we observe. Gilman, a humanities professor at Cornell University and the Cornell Medical College, illustrates the close link between science and art and blends the scholarship of the humanities with a perspective and interest shared with medicine and the social and behavioral sciences. Substantively, this work is a social and cultural analysis of disease using the tools and methodology of the humanities (especially history) and the theoretical perspective of psychiatry and psychology (especially psychoanalysis). The result is of immense sociological interest. Drawing upon literature, works of art, and the popular media, along with documents from science, medicine, and psychiatry, Gilman presents us with images of diseases and diseased persons from ancient times through the medieval period and the renaissance to modern times. The primary focus is on "madness"-i.e., severe or chronic mental illness, especially the major affective disorders and schizophrenia- but the central topic of several chapters is sexuality http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology) Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 1989 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0020-7152
eISSN
1745-2554
DOI
10.1163/156854289X00499
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Abstract

BOOK REVIEWS Sander L. Gilman, Disease and Representation: Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1988, 347 pp., $ 37.50 (cloth), $13.95 (paper). In many respects, this work illustrates the essential wholeness of knowledge and the unique human attribute of trying to understand what we observe. Gilman, a humanities professor at Cornell University and the Cornell Medical College, illustrates the close link between science and art and blends the scholarship of the humanities with a perspective and interest shared with medicine and the social and behavioral sciences. Substantively, this work is a social and cultural analysis of disease using the tools and methodology of the humanities (especially history) and the theoretical perspective of psychiatry and psychology (especially psychoanalysis). The result is of immense sociological interest. Drawing upon literature, works of art, and the popular media, along with documents from science, medicine, and psychiatry, Gilman presents us with images of diseases and diseased persons from ancient times through the medieval period and the renaissance to modern times. The primary focus is on "madness"-i.e., severe or chronic mental illness, especially the major affective disorders and schizophrenia- but the central topic of several chapters is sexuality

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International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology)Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1989

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