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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...
Autor principal: | Sforza Tarabochia, Alvise |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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