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Emerging infectious diseases.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Misc Print Collection box 11 no 19
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- Format:
- Image
- Author/Creator:
- Avery, Eric.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communicable diseases--Pictorial works.
- Communicable diseases.
- Physician and patient--Pictorial works.
- Physician and patient.
- Influenza--Patients--Pictorial works.
- Influenza.
- HIV-positive persons--Pictorial works.
- HIV-positive persons.
- AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Pictorial works.
- AIDS (Disease).
- Hepatitis C virus--Patients--Pictorial works.
- Hepatitis C virus.
- Tuberculosis--Patients--Pictorial works.
- Tuberculosis.
- Hospitals--Pictorial works.
- Hospitals.
- Patients--Pictorial works.
- Patients.
- Physicians--Pictorial works.
- Physicians.
- Communicable Diseases.
- Hepatitis C.
- HIV.
- Hospitals, General.
- Tuberculosis, Pulmonary.
- HIV (Viruses).
- hospitals (institutions, health facility).
- patients.
- physicians.
- Medical Subjects:
- Communicable Diseases.
- Hepatitis C.
- HIV.
- Hospitals.
- Patients.
- Physicians.
- Tuberculosis.
- Hospitals, General.
- Tuberculosis, Pulmonary.
- Genre:
- Illustrated works
- Illustrated works.
- illustrated books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : relief engraving of a linocut, with letterpress ; 28 x 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Houston] : [Arm and Hammer Press], [2000]
- Summary:
- "The print, a reduced relief engraving of a linocut by Eric Avery, was based upon this French woodcut of a hospital interior from Saint-Gelais Le Vergier d'Honneur, a devotional Book of Hours, printed in Paris around 1500. In the Avery print, the scene is not a literal delineation of a hospital interior but recapitulates the vicissitudes of emerging infectious diseases. We see various types. In the background, patients with multi-drug resistant TB are quarantined. On the right, a physician lays hands on a man with Hepatitis C. On the left, in front of three HIV/AIDS patients, a physician holds a spray can of OFF, an insect repellant distributed around New York City during the initial 1999 United States outbreak of West Nile Encephlitis, an infection spread by mosquitoes. In the foreground, a corpse, surrounded by crows, is being prepared for burial. Birds, especially crows, are particularly susceptible to West Nile, so sudden die-offs of birds are an important harbinger of the disease. Birds also appear to play the leading role in transporting the virus from one region to another. Mosquitoes, seen on the hands, arms and legs of the nurses and doctors in the print, carry the virus between hosts."--artist's description.
- Notes:
- Signed in pencil by the artist in the lower right hand corner.
- Printed by Eric Avery and Gordon Rouze to commemorate the 37th International Congress on the History of medicine, Galveston, Texas, 10-15 September 2000.
- Letterpress in Caslon handset by Gordon Rouze at the Arm and Hammer Press, Houston, Texas. Printed on paper handmade by Eric Avery.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2022 from Eric Avery.
- OCLC:
- 1433342819
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