Mapping Aids - Visual Histories of an Enduring Epidemic

Zusatztext 'This thoughtful and ingeniously argued study tracks AIDS from its beginnings as a nameless condition in a few individuals as it evolved into a recognized social thing, an entity with a legitimating mechanism, and therapeutic and bureaucratic responses.' Charles Rosenberg, Harvard University, Massachusetts Informationen zum Autor 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. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Lukas Engelmann, Lukas (University of Edinburgh) Engelmann
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781108444057
• ISBN: 978-1-108-44405-7
• No. of pages: 266
• Series: Global Health Histories
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, MEDICAL / History, Illness & addiction: social aspects, History of Medicine, Social and cultural history, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects