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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Plates -- Preface -- 1. Depicting Disease: A Theory of Representing Illness -- 2. Madness and Representation: Toward a History of Visualizing Madness -- 3. The Rediscovery of the Body: Leonardo's First Image of Human Sexuality and Disease -- 4. Masturbation and Anxiety: Henry Mackenzie, Heinrich von Kleist, William James -- 5. Images of the Asylum: Charles Dickens and Charles Davies -- 6. The Insane See the Insane: Richard Dadd -- 7. The Insane See the Insane: Vincent Van Gogh -- 8. The Science of Visualizing the Insane: Charles Darwin -- 9. Medical Colonialism and Disease: Lam Qua and the Creation of a Westernized Medical Iconography in Nineteenth-Century China -- 10. Opera, Homosexuality, and Models of Disease: Richard Strauss's Salome in the Context of Images of Disease in the Fin de Siecle -- 11. Constructing the Image of the Appropriate Therapist: The Struggle of Psychiatry with Psychoanalysis -- 12. Constructing Schizophrenia as a Category of Mental Illness -- 13. Seeing the Schizophrenic: On the "Bizarre" in Psychiatry and Art -- 14. Seeing the AIDS Patient -- Index

Our bodies change over time; posture is ambiguous in a number of cultural and disciplinary realms. Your posture can denote you as healthy or ill, elegant or slovenly, beautiful or ugly. Gilman examines the history and sociology of posture: how society views who we are and what we are able to do by how our bodies appear. --

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Introduction: On "Race," Sex, and Beauty in Historical Perspective; 1. Race (Again) and Medicine (Again): The Jews and Alcoholism; 2. What is the Color of the Gonorrhea Ribbon? Stigma, Sexual Diseases, and Popular Culture in the Twenty-First Century; 3. Nietzsche, Bizet, and Wagner-Illness, Health, and Race in the Nineteenth Century; 4. Are You Just What You Eat? Ritual Slaughter and the Politics of National Identity; 5. Imagining Glamour in the Age of Aesthetic Surgery.

The modern world is faced with a terrifying new 'disease', that of 'obesity'. As people get fatter, we have come to see excess weight as unhealthy, morally repugnant and socially damaging. Fat it seems has long been a national problem and each age, culture and tradition have all defined a point beyond which excess weight is unacceptable, ugly or corrupting. This fascinating new book by Sander Gilman looks at the interweaving of fact and fiction about obesity, tracing public concern from the mid-nineteenth century to the modern day. He looks critically at the source of our anxieties, covering

The exemplary patient -- Obesity from the Ancients to the beginning of the Modern Age -- Obesity from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment -- The battle between science and morality for the cure of obesity -- A somatic or psychological treatment of obesity -- New causes; new solutions for obesity -- The "Orient" battles obesity -- Globesity and the Public's health