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The staff of madness: the visualization of insanity and the othering of the insane

In this article I trace a history of the most ubiquitous visual symbol of madness: the staff. First, I argue that the staff, in its variants (such as the pinwheel) and with its attachments (such as an inflated bladder), represents madness as air. It thus represents madness as an invisible entity tha...

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Autor principal: Sforza Tarabochia, Alvise
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8172255/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33557665
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957154X21989224