2010
DOI: 10.14361/9783839404201
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Visuelle Gewalt

Abstract: Wie und warum wurden seelisch kranke Menschen zum Bild? Seit Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts fotografierten Ärzte hinter Anstaltsmauern ihre Patienten. Mediziner versuchten durch das Medium Fotografie, das unsichtbare Seelenleben an fixierbaren Körpersymptomen kenntlich zu machen. In diesem Buch werden die »Fotografien-wider-Willen« als Teil einer normierenden Körperpolitik interpretiert, die das Fremde definierte und damit eine Gegenwelt zur repräsentativen bürgerlichen Normalität entwarf. »Visuelle Gewalt« ist Ke… Show more

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“…From the mid-nineteenth century onwards, photography was used in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness. A pioneer of this approach, the English psychiatrist and photographer Hugh W. Diamond, was convinced that he could cure his mainly female patients simply by showing them photographic images of themselves (Gilman 1993: 353;Regener 2000;2010). 8 In 1852 Diamond presented his photographs as part of a lecture entitled "Types of Insanity", and in 1856 he read a presentation on "The Application of Photography to the Physiognomic and Mental Phenomena of Insanity" before the Royal Society in London (Gilman 2014(Gilman [1976: 17-24).…”
Section: Anthropologists At Workmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…From the mid-nineteenth century onwards, photography was used in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness. A pioneer of this approach, the English psychiatrist and photographer Hugh W. Diamond, was convinced that he could cure his mainly female patients simply by showing them photographic images of themselves (Gilman 1993: 353;Regener 2000;2010). 8 In 1852 Diamond presented his photographs as part of a lecture entitled "Types of Insanity", and in 1856 he read a presentation on "The Application of Photography to the Physiognomic and Mental Phenomena of Insanity" before the Royal Society in London (Gilman 2014(Gilman [1976: 17-24).…”
Section: Anthropologists At Workmentioning
confidence: 99%