----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Dear Colleagues: One of our MA students needs help finding material on his chosen dissertation topic: a comparison of images used to advertise cosmetics to the public and images used to promote topical pharmacological creams to doctors. Suggested keywords include "personal appearance", "self-concept", "ugliness" but all related specifically to skin disease/dermatology and its presentation in art/advertising. We've exhausted ABM, Art Index, Design & Applied Arts Index, Medline and various indexes to marketing/advertising journals. He's made useful contacts with various medical organizations and the Wellcome Institute Library in London. But we're finding very little. Does anyone out there have any other ideas? If so, please reply to me directly as we're still having problems with our connections to ARLIS-L and, whilst I can send messages to you, I can't receive the daily discussions. Maddening! Thanks for any help or advice which might be provided. Mary ********************************************************************** Mary Kelman Harrison Architecture Subject Librarian Manchester Metropolitan University All Saints Library Manchester M15 6BH Tel: 061 247 6108 E-mail: [log in to unmask] **********************************************************************