Art in Science

Polyxeni Potter, MA, ELS, is Managing Senior Editor of the CDC journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. She was educated in literature and the arts and has a formidable grasp of the mechanics of language, rooted in her knowledge of Greek and Latin. She brought these skills to CDC two decades ago, and since then she has forged the humanities and science bond at the heart of this book. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services headquartered in Druid Hills, unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, in Greater Atlanta.

Emerging Infectious Diseases: Art in Science ; FOREWORD ; PREFACE - Arts, Science, and the Pursuit of Knowledge ; Figure 1. Georges Rouault Les Trois Juges ; Figure 2. Winslow Homer Right and Left (detail) ; Figure 3. Rembrandt van Rijn Scholar in His Study ; Figure 4. Hans Holbein the Younger Nicholas Kratzer (detail) ; Figure 5. Giuseppe Arcimboldi or Arcimboldo Vertumnus ; DISEASE EMERGENCE ; Figure 1. Ray Troll Fishes of Amazonia ; Figure 2. Maxfield Parrish Masquerade ; Figure 3. Hale Aspacio Woodruff Interchange ; Figure 4. Andy Warhol Albert Einstein ; Figure 5. Salvador Dali Daddy Longlegs of the Evening?Hope! ; Pierre-Auguste Renoir Luncheon of the Boating Party ; Everything Flows Nothing Stands Still ; Archibald J Motley Jr Nightlife ; Host-Pathogen-Venue Combinations and All That Jazz ; Pieter Bruegel the Elder Return of the Herd ; The Panoramic Landscape of Human Suffering ; Jackson Pollock Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) ; Oneness, Complexity, and the Distribution of Disease ; Piet Mondrian Broadway Boogie Woogie ; Molecular Techniques and the True Content of Reality ; Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio Basket of Fruit ; Chiaroscuro in Art and Nature ; Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa ; Art, Science, and Life's Enigmas ; MICROBIAL ADAPTATION AND CHANGE ; Figure 1. Eric Mack APMR-41553 ; Figure 2. Max Weber Figures ; Figure 3. Clive Hicks-Jenkins The Prophet Fed by a Raven ; Figure 4. Prince Twins Seven-Seven The Lazy Hunters, and the Poisonous Wrestlers Lizard Ghost and the Cobra ; Figure 5. Abu'l Hasan Nadir al-Zaman Squirrels in a Plane Tree with Hunter Attempting to Climb the Tree ; Vincent van Gogh Terrace of a Cafe at Night (Place du Forum) ; Not from the Stars Do I My Judgment Pluck ; Athenian black-figured amphora Herakles and the Stymphalian Birds ; Ancient Myths and Avian Pestilence ; Edvard Munch Self-Portrait after the Spanish Flu ; The Human Face of Pestilence ; Paolo Veronese Venice Receives from Juno the Doge's Hat ; Nature hath fram'd strange fellows in her time ; Jacques-Louis David Coronation of Empress Josephine ; Corona of Power or Halo of Disaster ; Anne Adams Pi ; Much Madness is divinest Sense ; Richard Estes DRUGS ; Drugs, Microbes, and Antimicrobial Resistance ; CLIMATE, WEATHER, ECOSYSTEMS ; Figure 1. Pieter Bruegel the Elder Hunters in the Snow ; Figure 2. Henri Rousseau The Snake Charmer ; Figure 3. Festival Banner, Nepal, 17th century ; Figure 4. Salum Kambi The Village Hut ; Figure 5. Radcliffe Bailey En Route ; Fred Machetanz Quest for Avuk ; I am but mad north-northwest: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw ; Caspar David Friedrich The Polar Sea ; The Icy Realm of the Rime ; Emily Carr Big Raven ; North American Birds and West Nile Virus ; Paul Gauguin I Raro te Oviri (Under the Pandanus) ; Trouble in Paradise ; Katsushika Hokusai The Great Wave off Kanagawa ; Of Tidal Waves and Human Frailty ; Frank Day Konkow Maidu (The Water Test) ; Memory Imagination as Predictors of Harm ; Alexis Rockman Manifest Destiny ; Manifesting Ecologic and Microbial Connections ; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND LAND USE ; Figure 1. Albrecht Durer, Stag Beetle ; Figure 2. Daudi E.S. Tingatinga, Leopard ; Figure 3. Charles E. Burchfield, Camouflage design ; Figure 4. Utagawa Hiroshige, Plum Garden at Kameido ; Figure 5. Rosa Bonheur, Plowing in Nivernais ; Thomas Eakins John Biglin in a Single Scull ; Rowing on the Schuylkill, Damming on the Yangtze ; Thomas Hart Benton Interior of a Farm House ; The Soot that Falls from Chimneys ; Stelios Faitakis Kakerlaken sind die Zukunft ; And Therefore I have Sailed the Seas and Come to the Holy City of Byzantium ; Eugene von Guerard Ferntree Gully in the Dandenong Ranges ; Landscape Transformation and Disease Emergence ; Phoenix and Birds China ; Phoenix and Fowl: Birds of a Feather ; Ceiling, Lascaux Caves, The Painted Gallery ; Paleolithic Murals and the Global Wildlife Trade ; George Seurat Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte ; Optics and Biologic Connectedness ; HUMAN DEMOGRAPHICS AND BEHAVIOR ; Figure 1. Census Proceedings on the Campus Martius. Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus. Decoration from the base of a statuary group. ; Figure 2. Giovanni Battista (Giambattista), Tiepolo ; Figure 3. Georgia O'Keeffe, Cow's Skull with Calico Roses ; Figure 4. Jules Adler, Transfusion of a Goat's Blood ; Figure 5. Edward Hopper, Drug Store ; William Blake The Ghost of a Flea ; ELa flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum ; Georges Desarmes The Bathers ; Persistence of Memory and the Comma Bacillus ; Frida Kahlo Self-Portrait with Monkey ; Exotic Pets and Zoonotic Puzzles ; Mori Sosen Monkey Performing the Sanbas? Dance ; Human minus Three Pieces of Hair ; Gerard van Kuijl Narcissus ; I rhyme / to see myself, to set the darkness echoing ; Krishna Storms the Citadel of Naraka India, Karnataka, Mysore ; Protect Me, Lord, from Oil, from Water, from Fire, and from Ants and Save me from Falling into the Hands of Fools ; Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes Self-portrait with Doctor Arrieta ; The SARS Patient ; TECHNOLOGY, INDUSTRY, TRAVEL AND COMMERCE ; Figure 1. Vincent van Gogh, The Prison Courtyard ; Figure 2. Alexis Rockman, The Farm ; Figure 3. Lois Mailou Jones, Ubi Girl from Tai Region ; Figure 4. Romare Bearden, Circe Turns a Companion of Odysseus into Swine ; Figure 5. Andrew Wyeth, Christina Olson ; Henri Matisse Icarus ; Hazards of Travel ; Liubov Popova The Traveler ; Tango with Cows ; Diego Velazquez Old Woman Cooking Eggs ; Genre Painting and the World's Kitchen ; Moschophoros (Calf-Bearer) attributed to Phaidimos ; In Dreams Begin Responsibilities ; Edward Hicks Peaceable Kingdom ; One Medicine for Animal and Human Health ; Cameron Hayes The Russians knew perfectly well that the happiness of the African animals was that they had such low expectations?before the pets were introduced (detail) ; Traveling Light and the Tyranny of Higher Expectations ; Francisco Roa Sands Flowers ; The Way Forward Is the Way Back ; POVERTY AND CONFLICT ; Figure 1. Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Enrolled Flathead Salish, Rain ; Figure 2. Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Banjo Lesson ; Figure 3. Georges de La Tour, La Femme a la puce (The Flea Catcher) ; Figure 4. Ellis Wilson, Caribbean Bird Vendor ; Figure 5. Vincent van Gogh, The Potato Eaters ; Remedios Varo La Llamada (The Call) ; Scientific Discovery and Women's Health ; Bartolome Esteban Murillo The Young Beggar ; How comes it, Rocinante, you're so lean? I'm underfed, with overwork I'm worn ; Jacob Lawrence Marionettes ; What Did I Do to Be so Black and Blue? ; Rembrandt van Rijn The Rat Catcher ; Rats, Global Poverty, and Paying the Piper ; Amedeo Modigliani Self-Portrait 1919 ; The Face of Tuberculosis ; Norman Rockwell Postman Reading Mail ; Bioterrorism-related Anthrax ; Pablo Picasso Guernica ; Art is the Lie that Tells the Truth ; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; BIBLIOGRAPHY