Placing the Public in Public Health in Post-War Britain, 1948–2012 [electronic resource] / by Alex Mold, Peder Clark, Gareth Millward, Daisy Payling.
By: Mold, Alex [author.]
Contributor(s): Clark, Peder [author.] | Millward, Gareth [author.] | Payling, Daisy [author.] | SpringerLink (Online service)
Material type: TextSeries: Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History: Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019Edition: 1st ed. 2019Description: VIII, 141 p. 1 illus. in color. online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783030186852Subject(s): Great Britain—History | Medicine—History | Medical policy | History, Modern | Social history | History of Britain and Ireland | History of Medicine | Health Policy | Modern History | Social HistoryAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification: 941 LOC classification: DA1-995Online resources: Click here to access online1 Introduction -- 2 The Public and Public Health -- 3 Imagining Publics -- 4 Speaking Back -- 5 Changing Publicness -- 6 Conclusion.
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This open access book explores the question of who or what ‘the public’ is within ‘public health’ in post-war Britain. Drawing on historical research on the place of the public in public health in Britain from the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948, the book presents a new perspective on the relationship between state and citizen. Focusing on health education, health surveys, heart disease and the development of vaccination policy and practice, the book establishes that ‘the public’ was not one thing but many. It considers how public health policy makers and practitioners imagined the public or publics. These publics were not mere constructions; they had agency and the ability to ‘speak back’ to public health. The nature of publicness changed during the latter half of the twentieth century, and this book argues that the relationship between the public and public health offers a powerful lens through which to examine such shifts.
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