Since the late nineteenth century, the image of the pathogen has embodied the disease it causes—its discovery equated with the discovery of the disease itself. Visualizing a disease-causing organism became key to constructing a distinct, biomedical disease identity. But what of the diseases whose pathogens would not “reveal themselves” to the microscopist? Denied this “ontological” representation, would they not attain this framing? This essay further problematizes the supposed dominance of the laboratory and the microscope in normalizing disease at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by examining scientific images produced in the study of dengue fever in Asia. Surveying a range of medical techniques and technologies and their attendant visual productions through the lens of dengue, this essay argues for the importance of alternative scientific imagery in articulating its disease identity about 1900.

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细菌学时代登革热的病毒图像

自 19 世纪后期以来，病原体的形象就体现了它所引起的疾病——它的发现等同于疾病本身的发现。可视化致病生物体成为构建独特的生物医学疾病身份的关键。但是，病原体不会向显微镜专家“揭示自身”的那些疾病呢？否认这种“本体论”表征，他们不会获得这种框架吗？本文通过检查亚洲登革热研究中产生的科学图像，进一步质疑实验室和显微镜在 19 世纪和 20 世纪之交在疾病正常化方面的主导地位。通过登革热的镜头调查一系列医疗技术和技术及其伴随的视觉产品，