Book ID: CBB145222575

Mapping AIDS: Visual Histories of an Enduring Epidemic (2018)

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Engelmann, Lukas (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 266 pp.
Language: English

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.

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Review Janet Greenlees (October 2022) Review of "Mapping AIDS: Visual Histories of an Enduring Epidemic". Technology and Culture (pp. 1229-1230). unapi

Review Ketil Slagstad (2019) Review of "Mapping AIDS: Visual Histories of an Enduring Epidemic". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 865-866). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
McKay, Richard A.
Elizabeth, Hannah J
Aliete Cunha-Oliveira
Pienaar, Kinar
Smallman, Shawn C.
Sara Wetzler
Concepts
AIDS (disease); HIV / AIDS
Epidemics
Public health
Epidemiology
Human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV)
Medicine
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
United States
South Africa
Latin America
Portugal
Europe
Canada
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