ABSTRACT
How does one see, and hence think about an epidemic? Writing in the New Yorker in 1994, American journalist Stan Sesser noted of a recent trip to Japan that:
A visitor to Tokyo quickly senses that something is missing. In two weeks of walking around the city’s most crowded districts…I only once saw someone in a wheelchair… The disabled live in their own version of a world of apartheid-a world that gives an insight into that people with AIDS, a far worse stigma, are encountering?1
