The books and articles listed below provide a theoretical and practical introduction to the cultural responses to HIV/AIDS in Australia, Britain and the United States.
Rob Baker, The Art of AIDS: From Stigma to Conscience, New York: Continuum, 1994.
Gregg Bordowitz, The AIDS Crisis is Ridiculous and Other Writings, 1986-2003, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004.
Douglas Crimp (ed.), AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988.
Douglas Crimp, 'Portraits of People with AIDS', in Lawrence Grossberg, Gary Nelson and Paula A. Treichler (eds), Cultural Studies, New York, 1992, pp.117-33.
Jan Zita Grover, 'AIDS: Keywords', in Douglas Crimp (ed.), AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988, pp.17-30.
Paula A. Treichler, How to Have Theory in an Epidemic: Cultural Chronicles of AIDS, Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.
David Gere, How to Make Dances in an Epidemic: Tracking Choreography in the Age of AIDS, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004.
Sander L. Gilman, Disease and Representation: Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988, pp.245-72.
Ted Gott (ed.), Don't Leave Me This Way: Art in the Age of AIDS, Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 1995.
Gabriele Griffin, Representations of HIV and AIDS: Visibility Blue/s, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000
Deborah Lupton, Moral Threats and Dangerous Desires: AIDS in the News Media, London: SAGE, 1994.
Paul Sendziuk, Learning to Trust: Australian Responses to AIDS, Sydney: UNSW Press, 2003.
Simon Watney, Policing Desire: Pornography, AIDS and the Media, London: Comedia, 1987.
Simon Watney, Practices of Freedom: Selected Writings on HIV/AIDS, London: Rivers Oram Press, 1994.
Andrea Vaucher, Muses From Chaos and Ash: AIDS, Artists and Art, Grove Press, 1993.
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