1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791759403321

Titolo

Imagining illness [[electronic resource] ] : public health and visual culture / / David Serlin, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press, c2010

ISBN

1-4529-4595-0

0-8166-7533-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (324 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SerlinDavid

Disciplina

362.1068/8

Soggetti

Health promotion - Audio-visual aids - History

Health education - Audio-visual aids - History

Mass media in health education - History

Communication in public health - History

Public health - Marketing - History

Medical illustration - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Image and the imaginary in early health education : Wilbur Augustus Sawyer and the hookworm campaigns of Australia and Asia / Lenore Manderson -- Cultural communication in picturing health : W.W. Peter and public health campaigns in China, 1912-1926 / Liping Bu -- The color of money : campaigning for health in black and white America / Gregg Mitman -- Empathy and objectivity : health education through corporate publicity films / Kirsten Ostherr -- Contagion, public health, and the visual culture of nineteenth-century skin / Katherine Ott -- Maps as graphic propaganda for public health / Mark Monmonier -- "Some one sole unique advertisement" : public health posters in the twentieth century / William H. Helfand -- Nursing the nation : the 1930s public health nurse as image and icon / Shawn Michelle Smith -- Visual imagery and epidemics in the Twentieth Century / Roger Cooter and Claudia Stein -- The image of the child in postwar British and U.S. psychoanalysis / Lisa Cartwright -- Performing live surgery on television and the internet since 1945 / David Serlin -- Imagining mood disorders as a public health crisis / Emily Martin.



Sommario/riassunto

From seventeenth-century broadsides about the handling of dead bodies, printed during London's plague years, to YouTube videos about preventing the transmission of STDs, public health advocacy and education has always had a powerful visual component. Imagining Illness explores the diverse visual culture of public health, broadly defined, from the nineteenth century to the present. Contributors to this volume examine historical and contemporary visual practices-Chinese health fairs, documentary films produced by the World Health Organization, illness maps, fashions for nurses, and live surgery

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790978703321

Autore

Jeffreys-Jones Rhodri

Titolo

The FBI : a history / / Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, Connecticut : , : Yale University Press, , [2007]

©2007

ISBN

0-300-13887-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Disciplina

363.250973

Soggetti

Law enforcement

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1 Race and the Character of the FBI -- CHAPTER 2 Secret Reconstruction, 1871-1905 -- CHAPTER 3 Proud Genesis, 1905-1909 -- CHAPTER 4 Loss of Mission, 1909-1924 -- CHAPTER 5 The First Age of Reform, 1924-1939 -- CHAPTER 6 Counterespionage and Control, 1938-1945 -- CHAPTER 7 The Alienation of Liberal America, 1924-1943 -- CHAPTER 8 Gestapo Fears and the Intelligence Schism, 1940-1975 -- CHAPTER 9 Anachronism as Myth and Reality, 1945-1972 -- CHAPTER 10 A Crisis of American Democracy, 1972-1975 -- CHAPTER 11 Reform and Its Critics, 1975-1980 -- CHAPTER 12 Mission Regained, 1981-1993 -- CHAPTER 13 Strife and Slippage, 1993-2001 -- CHAPTER 14 9/11 and the Quest for National Unity -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX



Sommario/riassunto

This fast-paced history of the FBI presents the first balanced and complete portrait of the vast, powerful, and sometimes bitterly criticized American institution. Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, a well-known expert on U.S. intelligence agencies, tells the bureau's story in the context of American history. Along the way he challenges conventional understandings of that story and assesses the FBI's strengths and weaknesses as an institution. Common wisdom traces the origin of the bureau to 1908, but Jeffreys-Jones locates its true beginnings in the 1870s, when Congress acted in response to the Ku Klux Klan campaign of terror against black American voters. The character and significance of the FBI derive from this original mission, the author contends, and he traces the evolution of the mission into the twenty-first century. The book makes a number of surprising observations: that the role of J. Edgar Hoover has been exaggerated and the importance of attorneys general underestimated, that splitting counterintelligence between the FBI and the CIA in 1947 was a mistake, and that xenophobia impaired the bureau's preemptive anti-terrorist powers before and after 9/11. The author concludes with a fresh consideration of today's FBI and the increasingly controversial nature of its responsibilities.