Mold / Unknown / Clark Publics and their health

Historical problems and perspectives
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5676-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, Band 45, 216 Seiten

Reihe: Social Histories of Medicine

Why are some groups and individuals seen as problems for public health? How does this change over time and place? Through a series of case-studies, this collection explores the making of ‘problem publics’ and their relationship with public health authorities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Mold, Alex

Clark, Peder

Elizabeth, Hannah J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: publics and their health – historical problems and perspectives – Alex Mold, Peder Clark and Hannah J. Elizabeth
1 ‘Democracy trains its microscope’ on public health: intergovernmental relations, competing publics and negotiations at the grassroots – Jennifer Gunn
2 ‘Dumping grounds for… human waste’: containing problem populations in post-war British public health policy, 1945–74 – Michael Lambert

3 Socialism, health and the politics of identity: conversations from East Germany’s AIDS crisis – Johanna Folland
4 Forgoing fat: food choice, disease prevention and the role of the food industry in health promotion in England, 1980–92 – Jane Hand

5 At the borders of the public: immigrant and migrant publics and the right to health – Beatrix Hoffman

6 The emergence of violence as a public health problem in Argentina – Martín Hernán Di Marco
Afterword: from Asiatic cholera to COVID-19 – the many publics of modern public health – Tom Crook
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mold Alex:

Alex Mold is Senior Lecturer in History in the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineAlex Mold is Associate Professor in History at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Peder Clark is Research Fellow in History at the University of Strathclyde

Hannah J. Elizabeth is Research Fellow in History at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine