Exhibiting health

Exhibiting health: public health displays in the progressive era

by Koslow, Jennifer Lisa

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"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 exhib…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Exhibiting health : public health displays in the progressive era / Jennifer Lisa Koslow.

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. Health Exhibits 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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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2020

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Rutgers University Press
  • Place of Publication:New Brunswick, New Jersey
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2020

The Physical Object

  • Description:vii, 145 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781978803268, 1978803265, 9781978803275, 1978803273
  • oclc:on1126385741
  • LC Classification:RA425
  • Dewey Decimal:362.10973

Table of Contents

Developing Exhibition as a Tool for Popular Education -- The Art of Exhibit Making -- Health Trains : An Experiment in Traveling Exhibits -- Controversial Exhibits.

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Subjects

Communicable Disease Control Disease Transmission, Infectious -- pre… Exhibitions exhibitions (events) Exhibitions as Topic Expositions Health Education -- history History History, 20th Century Médecine -- Histoire -- 20e siècle public health Public health -- History Public health -- History -- 20th centur… Santé publique -- Histoire -- 20e siècl… United States

Writers

Koslow, Jennifer Lisa

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