Name: Mapping AIDS: Visual Histories of an Enduring Epidemic (en Inglés)
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Author: Engelmann, Lukas
ISBN: 9781108425773

portada Mapping AIDS: Visual Histories of an Enduring Epidemic (en Inglés)

Mapping AIDS: Visual Histories of an Enduring Epidemic (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Lukas Engelmann

Editorial

Cambridge University Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

266

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23.5x15.9x1.3 cm

Peso

0.57 kg.

ISBN13

9781108425773

Categorías

Historia de la medicina
Medicina forense

Mapping AIDS: Visual Histories of an Enduring Epidemic (en Inglés)

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In this innovative study, Lukas Engelmann examines visual traditions in modern medical history through debates about the causes, impact and spread of AIDS. Utilising medical AIDS atlases produced between 1986 and 2008 for a global audience, Engelmann argues that these visual textbooks played a significant part in the establishment of AIDS as a medical phenomenon. However, the visualisations risked obscuring the social, cultural and political complexity of AIDS history. Photographs of patients were among the earliest responses to the mysterious syndrome, cropped and framed to deliver a visible characterisation of AIDS to a medical audience. Maps then offered an abstracted image of the regions invaded by the epidemic, while the icon of the virus aspired to capture the essence of AIDS. The epidemic's history is retold through clinical photographs, epidemiological maps and icons of HIV, asking how this devastating epidemic has come to be seen as a controllable chronic condition.