Coming into focus: Posters, power, and visual culture in the history of medicine

Medizinhistorisches Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 180-209

  Cooter, Roger ^a   Stein, Claudia ^b  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AIDS; Allan Brandt; Health posters; Michel Foucault; Paula Treichler; Sander Gilman; Susan Sontag; Visual studies

Indexed keywords

ADVERTIZING; ART; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; GERMANY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISTORY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADVERTISING AS TOPIC; CULTURE; GERMANY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; MEDICINE IN ART; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 35648948356     PISSN: 00258431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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