Publics and their health
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Publics and their health

Historical problems and perspectives

  1. 203 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Publics and their health

Historical problems and perspectives

About this book

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a renewed interest in the relationship between public health authorities and the public. Particular attention has been paid to 'problem publics' who do not follow health advice. This is not a new issue. As the chapters in this collection demonstrate, the designation of certain groups or populations as problem publics has long been a part of health policy and practice. By exploring the creation and management of these problem publics in a range of time periods and geographical locations, the collection sheds light on what is both specific and particular. For health authorities, publics themselves were often thought to pose problems, because of their behaviour, identity or location. But publics could and did resist this framing. There were, and continue to be, many problems with seeing publics as problems.

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Information

Publisher
Manchester University Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781526156754
eBook ISBN
9781526156747
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
20th Century History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. List of figures
  8. List of contributors
  9. Introduction: publics and their health – historical problems and perspectives
  10. 1 ‘Democracy trains its microscope’ on public health: intergovernmental relations, competing publics and negotiations at the grassroots
  11. 2 ‘Dumping grounds for … human waste’: containing problem populations in post-war British public health policy, 1945–74
  12. 3 Socialism, health and the politics of identity: conversations from East Germany’s AIDS crisis
  13. 4 Forgoing fat: food choice, disease prevention and the role of the food industry in health promotion in England, 1980–92
  14. 5 At the borders of the public: immigrant and migrant publics and the right to health
  15. 6 The emergence of violence as a public health problem in Argentina
  16. Afterword: from Asiatic cholera to COVID-19 – the many publics of modern public health
  17. Index

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Yes, you can access Publics and their health by Alex Mold,Peder Clark,Hannah J. Elizabeth, Alex Mold, Peder Clark, Hannah J. Elizabeth in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medicine & 20th Century History. We have over 1.5 million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.