From: "Andrew Albert J. Ty" <andrewty-AT-i-manila.com.ph> Subject: Re: Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 22:35:32 +0800 ----- Original Message ----- > hi i was thinking of writing a dissertation about the representations of health and illness and was recommended looking atFoucault's Birth of the Clinic, but i have no idea where to start, i would appreciate any help, Hi, You might want to take a look at this (excellent) book called Visual Display: Culture Beyond Appearances (edited by Lynne Cooke and Peter Wollen for Bay Press in 1995). It contains two essays you may want to look at: (1) Lisa Cartwright's "Gender Artifacts: Technologies of Bodily Display in Medical Culture" (2) Ludmilla Jordanova's "Medicine and Genres of Display" Hope this helps, Andrew
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