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"Observation 21; Primitivo Grandon, 12 years old; recognised on June 25, with four days of illness; bubo of neck that suppurated; 20 cc of serum, in two injections; High on July 17"

dc.contributor.otherCentre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH, The University of Cambridge)
dc.coverage.spatialChile, Iquique
dc.coverage.temporal1903
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-27T11:32:35Z
dc.date.available2018-09-27T11:32:35Z
dc.descriptionThe third pandemic of plague (in its bubonic and pneumonic clinical forms) struck the globe between 1894 and 1959. As Yersinia pestis spread from country to country and from continent to continent, it left behind it not only a trail of death and devastation, but also a vast visual archive. It was the first time that plague would reach and establish itself in all inhabited continents. But it was also the first time that any epidemic would be photographed. As plague spread from harbour to harbour, and amongst cities, towns and villages, so did photographs of the pandemic through reproductions in the daily and illustrated press. Rather than forming a homogeneous or linear visual narrative, these photographic documents provided diverse perspectives on the pandemic, which, more often than not, were not simply different from region to region, but in fact conflicting within any single locus of infection. Moreover this photographic production came to establish a new field of vision, what we may call “epidemic photography” which continues to inform the way in which we see, depict and imagine epidemics and their social, economic, and political impact in the age of Global Health.
dc.descriptionChile experienced numerous but short-lived outbreaks of plague at the start of the twentieth century. Plague first appeared in the Northern port-city of Iquique in May 1903, with more outbreaks appearing in subsequent years in Valparaiso, Antofagasta, Pisagua, Tocopilla, Santiago and other ports and cities.
dc.description.sponsorshipThe database "Photographs of the Third Plague Pandemic" was funded by an European Research Council Starting Grant (under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme/ERC grant agreement no 336564) for the project Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic, led by Dr Christos Lynteris (PI); The Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH) of the University of Cambridge (2013-2018). The project would like to thank its postdoctoral researchers, Drs Lukas Engelmann, Nicholas H. A. Evans, Maurits Meerwijk, Branwyn Poleykett and Abhjit Sarkar, and its administrators Mss Teresa Abaurrea, Emma Hacking and Samantha Peel for their contribution to this database.
dc.identifier.doi10.17863/CAM.28736
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/281373
dc.publisherMemoria Chilena
dc.relation.ispartofRio, Zegers, Boza & Montero: Informe Sobre la Epidemia de Peste Bubonica
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dc.subjectPlague
dc.subjectPatient
dc.subjectConvalescent
dc.subjectChile
dc.subjectIquique
dc.title"Observation 21; Primitivo Grandon, 12 years old; recognised on June 25, with four days of illness; bubo of neck that suppurated; 20 cc of serum, in two injections; High on July 17"
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