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Exhibiting Health : Public Health Displays in the Progressive Era /
In the early twentieth century, public health reformers approached the task of ameliorating unsanitary conditions and preventing epidemic diseases with optimism. Using exhibits, they believed they could make systemic issues visual to masses of people. Embedded within these visual displays were messa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In the early twentieth century, public health reformers approached the task of ameliorating unsanitary conditions and preventing epidemic diseases with optimism. Using exhibits, they believed they could make systemic issues visual to masses of people. Embedded within these visual displays were messages about individual action. In some cases, this meant changing hygienic practices. In other situations, this meant taking up action to inform public policy. Reformers and officials hoped that exhibits would energize America's populace to invest in protecting the public's health. Exhibiting Health is an analysis of the logic of the production and the consumption of this technique for popular public health education between 1900 and 1930. It examines the power and limits of using visual displays to support public health initiatives. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (206 p.) : 16 b-w images |
| ISBN: | 9781978803305 9783110704716 9783110704518 9783110704808 9783110704600 9783110690330 |
| Acceso: | restricted access |