History of Medicine
Visual Culture and Public Health (Introduction)
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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.
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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.
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Treichler, Paula. How to Have Theory in an Epidemic: Cultural Chronicles of AIDS. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999.