Prominent among those in cultural h

Prominent among those in cultural history working on this front was Sander Gilman. From the early 1980s he had written widely on the social construction of representations of race, sexuality, madness, disease and, among other ‘othered’ subjects, the body of the Jew. In 1995, as a sequel to his Disease and Representation (1988), he produced Health and Illness: Images of Difference, one of whose chapters offered a close reading of some 40 AIDS posters drawn from the US National Library of Medicine's collection, and reproduced in black and white, full page