Mapping Aids - Visual Histories of an Enduring Epidemic

Offers an innovative study of visual traditions in modern medical history through debates about the causes, impact and spread of AIDS.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Seeing bodies with AIDS; 2. Seeing spaces of AIDS; 3. Seeing HIV as AIDS; Epilogue: the end of the AIDS crisis?; Bibliography; Index.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Lukas Engelmann is Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.

Zusammenfassung

This new and unique visual history of AIDS focuses on the AIDS atlas, published by dedicated clinicians between 1986 and 2008. 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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Lukas Engelmann, Lukas (University of Cambridge) Engelmann, Lukas (University of Edinburgh) Engelmann
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781108425773
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42577-3
• Seiten: 266
• Serien: Global Health Histories; Global Health Histories
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Allgemeines; Social & cultural history, MEDICAL / History, History of Medicine, Social and cultural history, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Hiv / Aids: Social Aspects