David Serlin is associate professor of communication and science studies at the University of California, San Diego.

"Imagining Illness fills a significant gap in terms of the visual culture of public health...the images are abundant and beautifully reproduced by the press. Given that this book is devoted to the image, it is heartening to see them reproduced here with such detail and expertise." -International Journal of Communication

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Toward a Visual Culture of Public Health: From Broadside to YouTubeDavid SerlinI. Tracing the Visual Culture of Public Health Campaigns1. Image and the Imaginary in Early Health Education: Wilbur Augustus Sawyer and the Hookworm Campaigns of Australia and AsiaLenore Manderson2. Cultural Communication in Picturing Health: W.W. Peter and Public Health Campaigns in China, 1912-1926Liping Bu3. The Color of Money: Campaigning for Health in Black and White AmericaGregg Mitman4. Empathy and Objectivity: Health Education Through Corporate Publicity FilmsKirsten OstherrII. Mapping a Visual Genealogy of Public Health5. Contagion, Public Health, and the Visual Culture of Nineteenth-Century SkinKatherine Ott6. Maps as Graphic Propaganda for Public HealthMark Monmonier7. "Some One Sole Unique Advertisement": Public Health Posters in the Twentieth CenturyWilliam H. Helfand8. Nursing the Nation: The 1930s Public Health Nurse as Image and IconShawn Michelle SmithIII. Building New Public Spheres for Public Health9. Visual Imagery and Epidemics in the Twentieth CenturyRoger Cooter and Claudia Stein10. The Image of the Child in Postwar British and U.S. PsychoanalysisLisa Cartwright11. Performing Live Surgery on Television and the Internet Since 1945David Serlin12. Imagining Mood Disorders as a Public Health CrisisEmily MartinContributorsIndex

David Serlin is associate professor of communication and science studies at the University of California, San Diego.

"Imagining Illness fills a significant gap in terms of the visual culture of public health...the images are abundant and beautifully reproduced by the press. Given that this book is devoted to the image, it is heartening to see them reproduced here with such detail and expertise." -International Journal of Communication

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Toward a Visual Culture of Public Health: From Broadside to YouTubeDavid SerlinI. Tracing the Visual Culture of Public Health Campaigns1. Image and the Imaginary in Early Health Education: Wilbur Augustus Sawyer and the Hookworm Campaigns of Australia and AsiaLenore Manderson2. Cultural Communication in Picturing Health: W.W. Peter and Public Health Campaigns in China, 1912-1926Liping Bu3. The Color of Money: Campaigning for Health in Black and White AmericaGregg Mitman4. Empathy and Objectivity: Health Education Through Corporate Publicity FilmsKirsten OstherrII. Mapping a Visual Genealogy of Public Health5. Contagion, Public Health, and the Visual Culture of Nineteenth-Century SkinKatherine Ott6. Maps as Graphic Propaganda for Public HealthMark Monmonier7. "Some One Sole Unique Advertisement": Public Health Posters in the Twentieth CenturyWilliam H. Helfand8. Nursing the Nation: The 1930s Public Health Nurse as Image and IconShawn Michelle SmithIII. Building New Public Spheres for Public Health9. Visual Imagery and Epidemics in the Twentieth CenturyRoger Cooter and Claudia Stein10. The Image of the Child in Postwar British and U.S. PsychoanalysisLisa Cartwright11. Performing Live Surgery on Television and the Internet Since 1945David Serlin12. Imagining Mood Disorders as a Public Health CrisisEmily MartinContributorsIndex