Recent ucsflibrary_adhhi items

DIGITAL HEALTH HUMANITIES TOOLKIT

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

DIGITAL HEALTH HUMANITIES TOOLKIT

ADHHI Practicum – Archives Session

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

ADHHI Practicum – Archives Session

Digital Health Humanities in Practice: An Open-Source Toolkit for Reimagining Pharmaceutical Archives Through Speculative Making

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Digital Health Humanities in Practice: An Open-Source Toolkit for Reimagining Pharmaceutical Archives Through Speculative Making

Weaving the Living Archive: Dr. Tolbert Small and History as a Healing Practice

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Weaving the Living Archive: Dr. Tolbert Small and History as a Healing Practice

ADHHI_PlenarySession2_RoadMaps_LessonPlan

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

ADHHI_PlenarySession2_RoadMaps_LessonPlan

Global AIDS Posters and the Visual Language of Horror

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

“Global AIDS Posters and the Visual Language of Horror” is an examination of how the AIDS crisis was communicated through visual culture and how the imagery was often based on a rhetoric of horror. Global aids posters and the language used to describe the epidemic, though well-intended, worked together to shape a public perception that was harmful to the AIDS patient during this time of uncertainty.

In the case of the language used to describe the epidemic, the slide deck includes data showing that newspapers such as The New York Times and The Washington Post, often referred to as newspapers of record, repeatedly used terms such as “plague,” “silent killer,” and “scourge” at the height of the crisis. Over time, this rhetoric influenced and became part of a larger visual and cultural dialogue that determined how AIDS was depicted in posters around the world. As amply demonstrated in the slide deck, many of these posters used skeletal forms,...