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Publics and their health: Historical problems and perspectives (Social Histories of Medicine) - Hardcover

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9781526156754: Publics and their health: Historical problems and perspectives (Social Histories of Medicine)
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ISBN 10: 152615675X ISBN 13: 9781526156754
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

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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Alex 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

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Attempts to secure the health of the population of a given place are one of the oldest forms of government action. Such efforts necessarily require the involvement of the publics they aim to protect – but up to now surprisingly little attention has been paid to who or what these publics consist of.

This collection addresses the gap by considering who the public of ‘public health’ was in an array of places and for a variety of illnesses. It deconstructs the notion of a single unitary public while illustrating the processes that go in to making ‘problem publics’ and ‘public health problems’. Presenting examples from contexts as diverse as the USA in the interwar period, East Germany in the 1980s and contemporary Argentina, contributors identify what is general and what is specific to the processes that make certain kinds of publics appear problematic.

Offering new perspectives on the history of public health in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Publics and their health opens out beyond purely national studies. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, it offers fresh insights into the nature of public health problems and practices.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
152615675X
ISBN 13 
9781526156754
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
214
Herausgeber
Mold Alex, Clark Peder, Elizabeth Hannah J.
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