02958namaa2200361uu 4500001001100000003000600011005001700017006001900034007001500053008004100068020001800109020001800127020002800145024004100173040001700214041000800231042000700239072001500246720002800261245005700289260003500346300002200381336002600403337002600429338003600455506005100491520178800542540006302330546001202393650003802405653003602443856011702479doab101649oapen20260305123952.0m     o  d        cr|mn|---annan230719s2022    xx |||||o     ||| 0|eng d  a9780262544221  a9780262544221  amitpress/14413.001.00017 a10.7551/mitpress/14413.001.00012doi  aoapencoapen0 aeng  adc 7aAJ2bicssc1 aLynteris, Christos4aut00aVisual PlaguebThe Emergence of Epidemic Photography  aCambridgebThe MIT Pressc2022  a1 online resource  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier0 aFree-to-readfUnrestricted online access2star  aHow epidemic photography during a global pandemic of bubonic plague contributed to the development of modern epidemiology and our concept of the "pandemic."    In Visual Plague, Christos Lynteris examines the emergence of epidemic photography during the third plague pandemic (1894-1959), a global pandemic of bubonic plague that led to over twelve million deaths. Unlike medical photography, epidemic photography was not exclusively, or even primarily, concerned with exposing the patient's body or medical examinations and operations. Instead, it played a key role in reconceptualizing infectious diseases by visualizing the "pandemic" as a new concept and structure of experience-one that frames and responds to the smallest local outbreak of an infectious disease as an event of global importance and consequence.    As the third plague pandemic struck more and more countries, the international circulation of plague photographs in the press generated an unprecedented spectacle of imminent global threat. Nothing contributed to this sense of global interconnectedness, anticipation, and fear more than photography. Exploring the impact of epidemic photography at the time of its emergence, Lynteris highlights its entanglement with colonial politics, epistemologies, and aesthetics, as well as with major shifts in epidemiological thinking and public health practice. He explores the characteristics, uses, and impact of epidemic photography and how it differs from the general corpus of medical photography. The new photography was used not simply to visualize or illustrate a pandemic, but to articulate, respond to, and unsettle key questions of epidemiology and epidemic control, as well as to foster the notion of the "pandemic," which continues to affect our lives today.  aAll rights reserveduhttp://oapen.org/content/about-rights  aEnglish 7aPhotography & photographs2bicssc  aEpedemics; history; photography40uhttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/10164970zFree-to-read: DOAB: description of the publication