The Art of AIDS Prevention: Cultural Responses to HIV/AIDS in Australia and the United States

虽然许多研究已经将艾滋病作为一个生物实体进行了考察，但对艾滋病的关键“文化建构”，以及这种建构对艾滋病患者和更广泛公众的影响，却知之甚少。该项目将有助于更广泛地认识到这样一个事实，即公众对疾病和受影响个人的理解既受文化影响，又有争议。在研究艺术家在应对艾滋病方面发挥的重要作用的同时，该项目还将提出在现有和未来的疾病流行和其他公共卫生威胁期间如何采用类似的文化干预措施。

While a number of studies have examined HIV/AIDS as a biological entity, the crucial 'cultural construction' of AIDS, and the effect of this construction on people living with AIDS and the wider public, is poorly understood. This project will assist wider awareness of the fact that public understandings of disease and affected individuals are both culturally mediated and contestable. In examining the important role that artists played in confronting AIDS, this project will also suggest how similar cultural interventions might be employed during existing and future disease epidemics and other public health threats.