Placing the Public in Public Health in Post-War Britain, 1948-2012 [electronic resource]

• Tác giả: Peder Clark, Gareth Millward, Alex Mold, Daisy Payling
• Ngôn ngữ: ger
• ISBN-13: 978-3030186852
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 941 British Isles
• Thông tin xuất bản: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019
• Mô tả vật lý: VIII, 141 p. 1 illus. in color. , online resource.
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 169347
• Chủ đề: 1. Great Britain-History; 2. History, Modern; 3. Medical policy; 4. Medicine-History; 5. Social history; 6. History of Britain and Ireland; 7. Health Policy; 8. History of Medicine; 9. Modern History; 10. Social History

Tóm tắt

 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.