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Bibliography
   
Visual Culture and Public Health (Introduction)
   

Barnard, Malcolm. Approaches to Understanding Visual Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.

Berger, Maurice, ed. Modern Art and Society: An Anthology of Social and Multicultural Readings. New York: Harper Collins, 1994.

Bynum, William and Roy Porter, eds. Medicine and the Five Senses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Drucker, Joanna. "Who's Afraid of Visual Culture?" Art Journal 58 (Winter 1999): 36-47.

Evans, Jessica and Stuart Hall, eds. Visual Culture: The Reader. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2001.

Gilman, Sander. Picturing Health and Illness: Images of Identity and Difference. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.

Helfand, William H. Medicine and Pharmacy: 100 Years of Poster Art. Albany: New York State Museum, 1981.

Helfand, William H. To Your Health: An Exhibition of Posters for Contemporary Public Health Issues. Bethesda, MD: National Library of Medicine, 1990.

Helfand, William H. "Art in the Service of Public Health: The Illustrated Poster," Caduceus VI (1990): 1-37.

Mirzoeff, Nicholas. An Introduction to Visual Culture. New York: Routledge, 1999.

Robert-Sterkendries, Marine and Pierre Julien. Posters of Health. Brussels: Therabel, 1996

Smith, Shawn Michelle. American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Stafford, Barbara Maria. Good Looking: Essays on the Virtue of Images. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, 1996.

Sturken, Marita and Lisa Cartwright. Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Walker, John and Sarah Chaplin, eds. Visual Culture: An Introduction. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1997.

   
Infectious Disease
   

"Achievements in Public Health, 1900-1999: Control of Infectious Diseases," Centers for Disease Control's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 48 (July 30, 1999): 621-629.

Brandt, Allan M. No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States Since 1880. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

DeSalle, Rob, ed. Epidemic!: The World of Infectious Disease. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999.

Dowling, H.F. Fighting Infection: Conquests of the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1977.

Dubos, René and Jean. The White Plague: Tuberculosis, Man, and Society. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1987.

Feldberg, Georgina. Disease and Class: Tuberculosis and the Shaping of North American Society. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995.

Grob, Gerald. Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2002.

Karlen, Arn. Man and Microbes: Diseases and Plagues in History and Modern Times. New York: Putnam Son's, 1995.

Levy, SB. The Antibiotic Paradox: How Miracle Drugs are Destroying the Miracle. New York: Plenum, 1992.

Martin, Emily. Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in American Culture -- From the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS. Boston: Beacon Press, 1994.

Ott, Katherine. Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture Since 1870. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1996.

Rosenberg, Charles and Janet Golden, eds. Framing Disease: Studies in Cultural History. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1992.

Rothman, Sheila M. Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American History. New York: BasicBooks, 1994.

Rothstein, William G. Public Health and the Risk Factor: A History of an Uneven Medical Revolution. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2003.

Ryan, Frank. The Forgotten Plague: How the Battle Against Tuberculosis Was Won -- and Lost. Boston: Little, Brown, 1993.

Tomes, Nancy. The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, the Microbe and Everyday Life. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1998.

World Heath Organization. The History of Vaccination [online]. [cited 3 October 2003]. Available from the World Wide Web: http://www.who.int/vaccines-diseases/history/history.shtml

   
Environmental Health
   

Bowker, Michael. Fatal Deception: The Terrifying True Story of How Asbestos is Killing America. Emmaus, PA: Rodale, 2003.

Davis, Devra Lee. When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution. New York: Basic Books, 2002.

Dewey, Scott Hamilton. Don't Breathe the Air: Air Pollution and U.S. Environmental Politics, 1945-1970. Texas Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2000.

Goklany, Indur. Clearing the Air: The Real Story of the War on Air Pollution. Washington, DC: CATO Institute, 1999.

Hays, Samuel P. and Barbara D. Hays. Beauty, Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the United States, 1955-1985. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Kovarik, William. Environmental History Timeline [online]. Radford, Va.: Radford University. [cited 3 October 2003]. Available from the World Wide Web: (http://www.radford.edu/~wkovarik/hist1/about.html)

Lewis, Jack. "Lead Poisoning: A Historical Perspective," EPA Journal 11:4 (May 1985).

Markowitz, Gerald and David Rosner. Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

McCally, Michael. Life Support: The Environment and Human Health. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002.

Rosner, David and Gerald Markowitz. Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Industrial Health in Twentieth-Century America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.

Sellers, Christopher. Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Tarr, Joel. The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective. Akron, OH: University of Akron Press, 1996.

Tweedale, Geoffrey. Magic Mineral to Killer Dust: Turner & Newell and the Asbestos Hazard. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Warren, Christian. Brush With Death: A Social History of Lead Poisoning. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Well, David. The Pesticide Poisoning of America [online photo essay]. Boston: Boston University School of Public Health. [cited 3 October 2003]. Available from the World Wide Web: (http://www.bumc.bu.edu/SPH/Gallery/)

   
Anti-Smoking Campaigns
   

Action on Smoking and Health. Key dates in the history of anti-tobacco campaigning [online]. [cited 3 October 2003]. Available from the World Wide Web: (http://www.ash.org.uk)

Buckley, Christopher. Thank You for Smoking. New York: Random House, 1994.

Gabb, Sean. Smoking and Its Enemies: A Short History of 500 Years of the Use and Prohibition of Tobacco. London: Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco, 1990.

Glantz, Stanton A. and Edith D. Balbach. Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Glantz, Stanton A., John Slade, Lisa A. Bero, Peter Hanauer, and Deborah E. Barnes, eds. The Cigarette Papers. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Kessler, David A. A Question of Intent: A Great American Battle With a Deadly Industry. New York: Public Affairs, 2001.

Kluger, Richard. Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.

National Center for Chronic Disease Control and Prevention. Tobacco Information and Prevention Resources [online]. [cited 3 October 2003]. Available from the World Wide Web: ( http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/index.htm)

Pertschuk, Michael. Smoke in Their Eyes: Lessons in Movement Leadership from the Tobacco Wars. Nashville: Vanderbuilt University Press, 2001.

Proctor, Robert. The Nazi War on Cancer. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Rabin, Robert L. and Stephen D. Sugarman, eds. Regulating Tobacco: Premises and Policy Options. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Sullum, Jacob. For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Campaign and the Tyranny of Public Health. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Reducing Tobacco Use: A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2000.

   
HIV/AIDS
   

Aggleton, Peggy and Richard Parker. A Conceptual Framework and Basis for Action: HIV/AIDS Stigma and Discrimination. Geneva: UNAIDS, 2002.

Bayer, Ronald and Gerald Oppenheimer, eds. AIDS Doctors: Voices From the Epidemic. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Berridge, Virginia and Philip Strong, eds. AIDS and Contemporary History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Crimp, Douglas. Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics. Cambridge: MIT, 2002.

Crimp, Douglas and Adam Rolston. AIDS Demo Graphics. Seattle: Bay Press, 1990.

Crimp, Douglas, ed. AIDS: Cultural Analysis, Cultural Activism. Cambridge: MIT, 1987.

Fee, Elizabeth and Daniel Fox, eds. AIDS: The Burdens of History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Fee, Elizabeth and Daniel Fox. AIDS: The Making of a Chronic Disease. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

Grmek, Mirko D. History of AIDS: Emergence and Origin of a Modern Pandemic. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.

Hannaway, Caroline, Victoria A. Harden, and John Parascandola, eds. AIDS and the Public Debate: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Amsterdam: IOS, 1995.

Helmken, Charles Michael. AIDS: Images for Survival. Washington, D.C.: Shoshin Society, 1989.

Kanabus, Annabel and Jenni Fredriksson. AIDS and HIV History [online] in History, Pictures, Virus [online]. West Sussex, U.K.: AVERT. [cited 3 October 2003]. Available from the World Wide Web: (http://www.avert.org)

Kramer, Larry. Reports From the Holocaust: The Story of an AIDS Activist. New York: St. Martin's, 1994.

Levin, Martin A. and Mary Bryna Sanger. After the Cure: Managing AIDS and Other Public Health Crises. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000.

Medical Mission Institute Wuerzburg. Posters in AIDS Education. Wuerzburg, Germany: AIDS and International Health Department, 1994.

Monette, Paul. Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1998.

Shilts, Randy. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic. New York: St. Martin's, 1987.

Treichler, Paula. How to Have Theory in an Epidemic: Cultural Chronicles of AIDS. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999.