Looking at pictures Susan Woodford

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Looking at pictures can be enjoyable, exciting or moving. Some pictures are easily appreciated at first glance, but others - often the most rewarding - require some explanation before they can be fully understood. This clearly written and enjoyable book is intended to increase pleasure and stimulate thought. It tackles many aspects of looking at paintings as well. Starting with familiar ideas, Dr Susan Woodford moves on to explore subtler, less obvious concepts. For example, she shows how paintings can be appreciated as patterns on a flat surface emotional effect; how ordinary objects can conceal hidden meanings and how knowledge of tradition improves our understanding of revolutionary works.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• List of illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction
• Part I Basic Concepts and Attitudes Toward Health and Illness
• 2 Japanese germs
• 3 My very own illness: illness in a dualistic world view
• 4 Physiomorphism (somatizion): an aspect of the Japanese illness etiology
• Part II Medical Pluralism
• 5 Kanpo: traditional Japanese medicine of Chinese origin
• 6 Medical roles of Japenese religions: a descriptive overview
• 7 Medical roles of Japanese religions: a historical-symbolic interpretation
• 8 Doctors and outpatients: biomedicine (I)
• 9 Hospitalization: biomedicine (II)
• 10 Medical pluralism
• Summary
• References
• Index