Exhibiting Health : Public Health Displays in the Progressive Era / Jennifer Lisa Koslow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koslow, Jennifer Lisa, Author.

Series:

Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health--United States--History--20th century.

Public health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 p.) : 16 b-w images

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Valuing the Visual in Public Health Education

Chapter 1 Developing Exhibition as a Common Tool for Popular Education

Chapter 2 The Art of Exhibit Making

Chapter 3 Health Trains:

Chapter 4 Controversial Exhibits

Conclusion: A Gradual Decline

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Dez 2020)

ISBN:

1-9788-0330-3

OCLC:

1176467985