the contents page from

Barbara Stafford, Good Looking ,

1983

Enlightenment/Re-Enlightenment

  • The Visualisation of Knowledge from the Enlightenment to Post-Modernism
  • Display and the Rhetoric of Corruption
  • The Eighteenth Century at the End of Modernity
  • The New Imagist

Practicing Vision

  • Making Images Real
  • Desperately seeking Connections: Linking the Internet to Eighteenth-Century Laboratory Life
  • The Natural History of Design: Humbert de Superville and Postmodern Theory

Aestetical Ethics

  • Medical Ethics as Postmodern Aesthetics
  • Picturing Ambiguity
  • Difficult Content, or the Pleasures of Viewing Pain.