{"id":3462,"date":"2022-09-22T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T09:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/?p=3462"},"modified":"2022-09-02T09:48:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T08:48:18","slug":"imagining-the-postantibiotic-future-the-visual-culture-of-a-global-health-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2022\/09\/22\/imagining-the-postantibiotic-future-the-visual-culture-of-a-global-health-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagining the Postantibiotic Future: The Visual Culture of a Global Health Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Article Summary by Rachel Irwin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are surrounded by health data, which became even more evident during the Covid-19 pandemic. Each day, newspapers published graphs and heat maps showing new cases. It is was not only epidemiologists, virologists and policy-makers who were interested in data, but also the general public and social media users who shared graphs and charts and participated in complex discussions about the robustness of data. This article uses the specific example of antimicrobial resistance to examine how global health data is visualized and communicated in popular culture.\u00a0 I look at how certain statistics take on a life of their own, and how these statistics explained through different metaphors, images and stories about a \u2019catastrophic\u2019 future in which antimicrobial drugs, including antibiotics, stop working.<\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mh.bmj.com\/content\/48\/3\/371\">Read the full article on the Medical Humanities Journal website<\/a><\/strong>.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3463\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3463\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3463 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2022\/09\/Irwin-Rachel-Imagining-the-postantibiotic-future-the-visual-culture-of-a-global-health-threat-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"Irwin, Rachel - Imagining the postantibiotic future the visual culture of a global health threat\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2022\/09\/Irwin-Rachel-Imagining-the-postantibiotic-future-the-visual-culture-of-a-global-health-threat-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2022\/09\/Irwin-Rachel-Imagining-the-postantibiotic-future-the-visual-culture-of-a-global-health-threat.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3463\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by \u00c5sa Lundgren<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Rachel Irwin is a researcher in ethnology at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University. 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