Tuberculosis' Visual Culture

This chapter examines medical visual culture in the context of the sanatorium movement. Thinking about the limitations of Michel Foucault's notions of the clinical gaze, this chapter argues for an expanded understanding of medicine's visual practices.

Section: 1: Visual Practices in Medical Culture

Outlining the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of this chapter, this section discusses the limitations of clinical gaze-based critiques of medicine.

1.1.1 | 1.1.2 | 1.1.3

Section: 2: Seeing and Settling in the Sanatorium Movement

A case study of the sanatorium movement and its visual practices, this section begins with an examination of E. L. Trudeau's work at the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium and ends with a look at the sanatoria built in Colorado at the turn of the twentieth century.

1.2.1 | 1.2.2 | 1.2.3 | 1.2.4 | 1.2.5

Section: 3: Teaching Public Health

This section looks to the ways sanatoria and public health officials taught hygiene to people with tuberculosis. This case study examines how these lessons reified white supremacist and bourgeois notions of health in relation to tuberculosis.

1.3.1 | 1.3.2 | 1.3.3 | 1.3.4 | 1.3.5

Section: 4: Representing Doctors in Tuberculous Contexts

This section examines the doctors who have been photographed in the tuberculosis corpus. It ruminates on what contexts in which medical professionals are imaged, and thinks about how consent operates in medicine's visual practices.

1.4.1 | 1.4.2