By Sander L. Gilman. 200 pp. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. $29.95. ISBN 0-8018-5197-1.
Before getting down to the business of examining representationsof illness and health in a variety of visual media, Sander Gilmantakes the reader on an instructive tour of the use of illustrationsin histories of medicine. The most common use of the image,he finds, is as a "window into reality." This is as much thecase for high-gloss coffee-table books that tell the story ofmodern medicine as it is for more scholarly histories. In eachcase, authors create historical narratives and use images toillustrate them. This method limits the image, binding it toone meaning only, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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