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11. Visual Culture and Public Health Posters
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/visualculture/vchome.html

The National Library of Medicine has the world's largest collection of
poster art dealing with questions of health in the United States, so it
would stand to reason that it would be able to sponsor a fine online
collection of the various ways in which visual culture has been used to
inform the general public about a number of health concerns ranging from
lead poisoning to tuberculosis. Visitors to the site will want to begin by
reading the introduction to the exhibit which offers a brief explication of
what precisely constitutes visual culture, along with providing a few
preliminary examples of early attempts to educate the public about different
public health issues through broadsheets, leaflets, and posters before the
20th century. After that, visitors will want to peruse each section
individually, as they all contain a selection of posters that have been
thematically designed to convey important messages about each different
public health issue in a way that commands the attention of the viewer and
is provocative. [KMG]

 >From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003.
http://scout.wisc.edu/

Laura

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