The Body at Risk

"The Body at Risk: Photography of Disorder, Illness, and Healing "is the first book to explore the ways that photojournalists and social documentarians have conceptualized the human subject as a site of both good and ill health. The volume looks at photographs depicting child laborers; Depression-era health programs; general medical care in the southern United States at mid-century; people with HIV, AIDS, and polio, along with their caretakers and the health workers who advocate for them; environmental pollution; physical and psychological injuries received during warfare; domestic violence; and emergency care in the modern urban hospital. It brings together ten significant bodies of photographs made over the past one hundred years to show how human health topics have been represented for the general public and how the emphasis on health has shifted; how photography has been used to present and promote certain points of view about health and the social circumstances that affect it, both positively and negatively; and how photography has helped shape public knowledge of and opinion about health care and some of the events and circumstances that engender it.

ISBN 0520247337   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9780520247338 (What's this?)   Pages 256 Publisher The University Press Group Ltd   Volumes 1 Imprint University of California Press   Weight (grammes) 1057 Format Paperback   Published in CA Publication date 04 Jan 2006   Height (mm) 219 Photographer Squiers, Carol   Width (mm) 241 Library of Congress 2005052926   Spine width (mm) 22 DEWEY 779.9616   Academic level General

Ch. 1		Lewis Wickes Hine : child labor		18
Ch. 2		Farm security administration - office of war information collection : the health initiatives of the New Deal		44
Ch. 3		W. Eugene Smith : Maude Callen, nurse midwife		72
Ch. 4		Donna Ferrato : domestic violence in the U.S.		94
Ch. 5		David T. Hanson : environmental pollution and the EPA		112
Ch. 6		Eugene Richards : emergency room		134
Ch. 7		Gideon Mendel : HIV & AIDS in Africa		150
Ch. 8		Lori Grinker : veterans of war		172
Ch. 9		Ed Kashi : aging in America		192
Ch. 10		Sebastiao Salgado : the end of polio		210

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