Global Histories of HIV/AIDS - Einzelansicht

How does one write the history of a global pandemic? This course will study approaches to the history of HIV/AIDS that discuss structures of inequality in health care worldwide. It will take up topics that have become familiar to us through our recent pandemic: scientific discovery, government policy, and activist responses. We will read secondary source literature that complicates the tendency to tell the history of the HIV/AIDS pandemic as a story of national policy. In the second half of the course, we will work with archival sources and historical methods which situate healthcare and government policy from activist perspectives.

The course discussion will be hosted in English with some optional secondary reading material in German.

AIDS and the Distribution of Crises by Jih-Fei Cheng, Alexandra Juhasz, and Nishant Shahani, eds. (Duke University Press, 2020).

Infectious Ideas: U.S. Political Responses to the AIDS Crisis by Jennifer Brier (University of North Carolina Press, 2009).

To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle against HIV/AIDS by Dan Royles (University of North Carolina Press, 2020).

Scrambling for Africa: AIDS, Expertise, and the Rise of American Global Health Science by Johanna Tayloe Crane (Cornell University Press, 2013).

The Night Is Young: Sexuality in Mexico in the Time of AIDS by Héctor Carrillo (University of Chicago Press, 2002).

A final paper in accordance with the student‘s Studienordnung