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title: "The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration"
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# The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration

**Brand:** richard barnett
**Price:** R1365
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        			Although The Sick Rose includes photographs of a leper&apos;s crutches, prosthetic noses, and a &quot;medicated balsamic chest protector,&quot; it is for the most part a treasury of the most handsome and curious lithographic prints found in nineteenth-century clinical textbooks...Richard Barnett serves up fascinating synopses of the cardinal diseases of the period, each chapter dotted with grisly factoids- even acknowledging the role of state power, imperialism, and abjection in the manufacture of these images.--Andrew Bourne &quot;BOMB Magazine &quot;The old lithographs that fill page after page of Barnett&apos;s THE SICK ROSE are of people and the diseases they suffer--from commonplace ailments like eczema to gout to cancer. And the pictures are...horible. And beautiful. And horrible. They are skillfully and carefully--almost lovingly--done by anonymous artists.--Lucas Peterson &quot;Flaunt &quot;If you&apos;re able to detach yourself from the knee-jerk reaction of: &apos;Oh my f**king god what&apos;s wrong with that dude&apos;s face?&apos;, these illustrations are really neat to look at.--Jonathan Smith &quot;Vice.com &quot;A memento of a remarkable genre ... the excellent choice of image, high production standards, and formidable scholarship of The Sick Rose suggest that it is a book that will endure. I would recommend it to anyone with an interest in art, medicine, history or, simply, the difficult and exhausting business of having and maintaining a body.--Niall Boyce &quot;The Lancet &quot;The strange, symbiotic relationship between medicine and social oppression is here given full-colour form: not only by anatomical illustrations of paupers&apos; and criminals&apos; corpses, but also by what - were they not so disfigured - would be regarded as straightforward portraits of the leprous and the syphilitic, the tubercular and the cancerous ... Richard Barnett&apos;s superbly erudite and lucid accompanying text would really suffice in itself as an introduction to the history of western medical science.--Will Self &quot;The Guardian &quot;A squirm-inducing illustrated tour through a kaleidoscope of 19th-century diseases.... over 350 strangely fascinating images from the world&apos;s rarest medical books.--Hannah Lack &quot;AnOther Mag &quot;If you think you&apos;re squeamish and medical drawings aren&apos;t for you don&apos;t be put off. This incredible book transcends that.--Helen Rumbelow &quot;The Times &quot;

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*Last updated: 2026-01-31*