Sander L. Gilman Ordine dei libri

A timely, cogent exploration of how COVID-19 has caused predudice and xenophobia.

. Interweaving the history of posture with our developing knowledge of anatomy and cultural history, and fully illustrated with an array of striking images, Stand Up Straight! is the first comprehensive history of the upright body at rest and in movement.

The connection and science behind race, racism, and mental illnessIn 2012, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Oxford reported that - based on their clinical experiment - the beta-blocker drug, Propranolol, could reduce implicit racial bias among its users. Shortly after the experiment, an article in Time Magazine cited the study, posing the question: Is racism becoming a mental illness? In Are Racists Crazy? Sander Gilman and James Thomas trace the idea of race and racism as psychopathological categories., from mid-19th century Europe, to contemporary America, up to the aforementioned clinical experiment at the University of Oxford, and ask a slightly different question than that posed by Time: How did racism become a mental illness? Using historical, archival, and content analysis, the authors provide a rich account of how the 19th century ‘Sciences of Man’ - including anthropology, medicine, and biology - used race as a means of defining psychopathology and how assertions about race and madness became embedded within disciplines that deal with mental health and illness.An illuminating and riveting history of the discourse on racism, antisemitism, and psychopathology, Are Racists Crazy? connects past and present claims about race and racism, showing the dangerous implications of this specious line of thought for today.

The book explores the evolution of sexuality representation in Western civilization from the rise of Christianity, highlighting how cultural definitions of beauty, gender, health, and morality have influenced societal identity. Gilman illustrates the enduring themes of masculinity and femininity, as well as the sacred and profane, revealing their interconnectedness within the broader narrative of Western culture over nearly two millennia.

The exploration of madness and art in Western culture reveals how stereotypes have influenced societal perceptions and treatment of mental illness from the Middle Ages to the late nineteenth century. Sander L. Gilman presents over 250 visual representations, including manuscripts, sculptures, and photographs, juxtaposed with medical illustrations. This collection highlights the reliance on visual motifs to concretize abstract concepts of mental illness, illustrating the historical relegation of the mentally ill to a state of "otherness" and the evolving societal understanding of insanity.

„At last: a catalogue which is so convincing that it makes a museum visit practically redundant.“ (die tageszeitung)

Explores the idea of the multicultural in the contemporary world, a question, which the author frames as the question of the relationship between Jews and Muslims: how do Jews define themselves, and how are they in turn defined, within the global struggles of the moment, struggles that turn in large part around a secularized Christian perspective?

Lidé kouřili odjakživa a zřejmě se budou tomuto potěšení oddávat vždy. Každá kultura v historii něco kouřila, ať už jako lék, jako součást určitého rituálu nebo jako jeden z kulturních aspektů. Dosud ještě nebyla kupodivu popsána žádná historie kouření, založená na skutečnosti, že kouření — ve všech svých formách a se všemi svými produkty — je kulturním fenoménem, který je společný všem lidským společnostem. Kniha Příběh kouření zkoumá kulturu kouření v různých tradicích a místech po celém světě. Od opiových doupat ve viktoriánské Anglii k tabáku z období Edo v Japonsku, od marihuany a kokainu k havanským doutníkům. Kniha vychází z kulturně-historického pohledu a obsahuje velké množství obrazového materiálu: více než tři stovky ilustrací, zobrazujících kouření a kuřáky nejrůznějších látek včetně tabáku, vonných cigaret, marihuany, opia a kokainu. Čtenář v publikaci nalezne slavné jako byly Marlene Dietrichová, Charlie Parker či Bob Marley, ale především se vydá se na cestu zkoumání kouření z mnoha různých hledisek — literatury, umění, kultury, pohlaví, sexuality a zdraví. Jednotlivé pasáže se zamýšlejí nad měnící se roli kouření ve vyspělých a významných kulturách a snaží se odhadnout budoucnost tohoto složitého kulturního fenoménu. Vycházejí z různorodého materiálu, od reklamních obrázků až k právní a morální kritice kouření.

In the first biography of this figure, Sander Gilman tells the story of Becker's life in five worlds: the Polish-Jewish middle-class neighborhood where Becker was born; the Warsaw ghetto and the concentration camps where Becker spent his childhood; the socialist order of the GDR, which Becker idealized, resisted, and finally was forced to leave; the isolated world of West Berlin, where he settled down to continue his writing; and the new, reunified Germany, for which Becker served as both conscience and inspiration.