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Seeing the Insane is a richly detailed cultural history of madness and art in the Western world, showing how the portrayal of stereotypes has both ref...
Images of Difference
This timely study demonstrates how images of beauty and ugliness have constructed a visual history that records the artificial boundaries dividing "he...
A series of eleven lectures delivered at Oxford University in 2004-05, some of which appeared as articles in journals. Partial contents:...
First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
A Slim Book
He isรธthe epitome of health?or a walking time bomb. He is oversexed?or sexless. He is jolly?or hiding the tears of a clown. He is the picture of weal...
Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race, and Madness
A collection of essays dealing with stereotypes in language and in literary texts, especially those associating race with sexuality and pathology (org...
Images of Illness from Madness to Aids
Sander L. Gilman, whose pioneering work on the history of stereotypes has become a model for scholars in many fields, here examines the images that so...
A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery
Nose reconstructions have been common in India for centuries. South Korea, Brazil, and Israel have become international centers for procedures ranging...
The Construction of the Image of Jewish Superior Intelligence
Smart Jews addresses one of the most controversial theories of our day: the alleged connection between race (or ethnicity), intelligence, and virtue. ...
"She's hysterical." For centuries, the term "hysteria" has been used by physicians and laymen to diagnose and dismiss the extreme emotionality and mys...
A Cultural History of Obesity
The modern world is faced with a terrifying new โdiseaseโ, that of โobesityโ. As people get fatter, we have come to see excess weight as unhea...
Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language of the Jews
An examination of Jewish self-hatred viewed as the adoption and internalization of antisemitic stereotypes. Focuses on the belief in the existence of ...
A Cultural Encyclopedia
Diets and dieting have concerned โ and sometimes obsessed โ human societies for centuries. The dieters' regime is about many things, among them th...
Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery
Why do physicians who've taken the Hippocratic Oath willingly cut into seemingly healthy patients? How do you measure the success of surgery aimed at ...
And Other Essays on Representing Difference
A pioneering interdisciplinary scholar examines the roles of images in the construction of stereotypes of the Jewโs body in 20th-century art and lit...
"This short and readable critical biography emphasizes the relationship between Franz Kafka's life and works as read through his culture and his under...
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Case Studies in the Medical Humanities
The humanities in higher education are too often labeled as impractical and are not usually valued in today's marketplace. Yet in professional fields,...
A Life in Five Worlds
In the first biography of this figure, Sander Gilman tells the story of Becker's life in five worlds: the Polish-Jewish middle-class neighborhood wher...
A History of Posture
Our bodies are not fixed. They expand and contract with variations in diet, exercise, and illness. They also alter as we age, changing over time to be...
Inscribing the Other focuses on great authors who have by birth or choice (or both) found themselves outside the mainstream of their culture but who h...
Touching, Seeing, and Sexuality
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Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews adds significantly to contemporary scholarship on cosmopolitanism by making the experience of Jews central to the discus...
A profound visual meditation on the trauma that scars twentieth-century Europe, Alan Cohen's On European Ground considers the battlefields of World Wa...
Life and Literature Since 1989
How can there by a Jewish culture in today's Germany? Since the fall of the Wall, there has been a substantial increase in the visibility of Jews in G...
How Reading and Listening in Childhood Shapes Us
An anthology both personal and profound exploring the deep meaning of reading in our lives. Readers for Life is a collection of essays, mainly special...
The Second Age of Biology
Diseases and Diagnoses discusses why such social problems as addiction, sexually transmitted diseases, racial predisposition for illness, surgery and ...
The essays in this collection, written by a pioneering interdisciplinary scholar, deal with the roles of images in the construction of stereotypes and...
A Scrapbook of the Twenties
How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity
The connection and science behind race, racism, and mental illness In 2012, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Oxford report...
Medicine and Identity at the Fin de Siรจcle
Focusing on the new science of psychoanalysis, Gilman looks at the strategic devices Sigmund Freud employed to detach himself from the stigma of being...
Pandemics and Xenophobia
A timely exploration of the global explosion in xenophobia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a close analysis of four cases from around the world,...
My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love
Text by Philippe Vergne, Sander Gilman, Thomas McEvilley, Robert Storr, Kevin Young, Yasmil Raymond....
"Seeing the Insane" is a richly detailed cultural history of madness and art in the Western world, showing how the portrayal of stereotypes has both r...
Prospects for Peace in Angola and Namibia
Gorbachev's new thinking on superpower relations assumes that struggle between two opposing world systems no longer characterizes the present era. Thi...
Images of Identity and Difference
A study of visual sources, from 19th-century textbook illustrations to recent government AIDS posters, which finds that the history of our perception ...
Thoughts for After the Year 2000
In an era of attacks on the humanities by the right ("Goethe is not taught anymore!") and the left ("Why teach dead white males?"), a distinguished te...
An Illustrated History
This visually striking text traces, for the first time, mythmaking about the sexual form, from cultural roots in Christianity to the recent mythmaking...
A Scrapbook of Vices and Virtues, 1880-1900