Visual Culture and Pandemic Disease Since 1750 - Capturing Contagion

Summary

Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1920s when, amidst expanding industrialism, colonialism, and scientific research, the world endured a succession of pandemics in tandem with the rise of popular visual culture and new media.

Product details

• Authors: Marsha (Pratt Institute Morton
• Assisted by: Ann-Marie Akehurst (Editor), Marsha Morton (Editor), Morton Marsha (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.07.2023
• EAN: 9781032261072
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3226107-2
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Science and the Arts since 1750
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; MEDICAL / Public Health, SCIENCE / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, ART / History / General, MEDICAL / History, History of art / art & design styles, Personal & public health, Illness & addiction: social aspects, History of Medicine, History of Art, History of Science, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Personal and public health / health education