Title: Mapping AIDS : visual histories of an enduring epidemic /
Authors: Engelmann, Lukas, 1981-
Year: 2018
Subjects: AIDS (Disease) Epidemiology; AIDS (Disease) Epidemiology History.; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome history; History, 20th Century; History, 21st Century; HIV Infections epidemiology
Abstract: "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 characterization 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."--Back cover.
Contents: Histories of AIDS -- The AIDS atlas -- Medicine's visual histories -- Seeing bodies with AIDS -- Still sexual -- Morphology and identity -- The end of AIDS photography -- Seeing spaces of AIDS -- Losing the AIDS space -- Globalizing the pandemic -- Origins and futures of AIDS -- Seeing HIV as AIDS -- Tracing the pathogen -- The AIDS virus -- The past of HIV -- Epilogue : the end of the AIDS crisis?.