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• Title:The sick rose, or, Disease and the art of medical illustration / Richard Barnett.
  
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• Variant Title:Disease and the art of medical illustration
  Sick rose
  
• Author/Creator:Barnett, Richard, 1980- author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Wellcome Collection.
  Distributed Art Publishers, publisher.
  
• Published/Created:New York, NY : D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., [2014]
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WZ348 .B261s 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Medical illustration--History--19th century.
  Diseases--Europe, Western--History--19th century--Pictorial works.
  
• Medical Subjects: Medical Illustration--history.
  
• Genre/Form:Illustrated works.
  
• Description:253 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
  
• Summary:"The Sick Rose is a visual tour through the golden age of medical illustration. The nineteenth century experienced an explosion of epidemics such as cholera and diphtheria, driven by industrialization, urbanization and poor hygiene. In this pre-color-photography era, accurate images were relied upon to teach students and aid diagnosis. The best examples, featured here, are remarkable pieces of art that attempted to elucidate the mysteries of the body, and the successive onset of each affliction. Bizarre and captivating images, including close-up details and revealing cross-sections, make all too clear the fascinations of both doctors and artists of the time. Barnett illuminates the fears and obsessions of a society gripped by disease, yet slowly coming to understand and combat it. The age also saw the acceptance of vaccination and the germ theory, and notable diagrams that transformed public health, such as John Snow's cholera map and Florence Nightingale's pioneering histograms, are included and explained. Organized by disease, The Sick Rose ranges from little-known ailments now all but forgotten to the epidemics that shaped the modern age"--Publisher description.
  
• Notes:"354 illustrations, 345 in color."
  "This book is published in partnership with Wellcome Collection and the Wellcome Library, a part of the Wellcome Trust"--Title page verso.
  Includes bibliographic references (pages 244-245) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781938922404
  1938922409
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: I. Skin Diseases
  Boundary of the Body
  II. Leprosy
  More than Skin Deep
  III. Smallpox
  Blistered by Act of Parliament
  IV. Tuberculosis
  White Death
  V. Cholera
  Free Trade in Disease
  VI. Cancer
  Claws of the Crab
  VII. Heart Disease
  Crowns and Murmurs
  VIII. Venereal Diseases
  Lifetime with Mercury
  IX. Parasites
  Colonizers Colonized
  X. Gout
  Fashionable Agony.