Examines mental healthcare workers' efforts to educate the public between 1870 and 1970.
This historical study of mental healthcare workers' efforts to educate the public challenges the supposition that public prejudice generates the stigma of mental illness. Drawing on extensive archival research, this book argues that psychiatrists, nurses and social workers gener…
This historical study of mental healthcare workers' efforts to educate the public challenges the supposition that public prejudice generates the stigma of mental illness. Drawing on extensive archival research, this book argues that psychiatrists, nurses and social workers gener…
Examines mental healthcare workers' efforts to educate the public between 1870 and 1970.
"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 visu…
"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 visu…
Developing Exhibition as a Tool for Popular Education -- The Art of Exhibit Making -- Health Trains : An Experiment in Traveling Exhibits -- Controversial Exhibits. "In the early twentieth century, public health reformers approached the task of ameliorating unsanitary condition…
"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 visu…
"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 visu…
"Examining a century of twists and turns in anti-cancer campaigns, this path-breaking study shows how American cancer awareness, prevention, treatment, and survival have been refracted through the lens of race. As cancer went from being a white woman's nemesis to a "democratic d…
"Examining a century of twists and turns in anti-cancer campaigns, this path-breaking study shows how American cancer awareness, prevention, treatment, and survival have been refracted through the lens of race. As cancer went from being a white woman's nemesis to a "democratic d…
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Disease, Difference, and the Color Line Ch 1 White Plague: Vulnerable Women and the Birth of Cancer Awareness in the Early Twentieth Century Ch 2 Primitive's Progress: From Savage Immunities to a New Deal in African-American Heal…
Introduction: health awareness and the color line -- White plague -- Primitive's progress -- The feminine mystique of self-examination -- How the other half dies -- Between progress and protest -- The new politics of old differences -- Conclusion: the color of cancer. "Examinin…
"Examining a century of twists and turns in anti-cancer campaigns, this path-breaking study shows how American cancer awareness, prevention, treatment, and survival have been refracted through the lens of race. As cancer went from being a white woman's nemesis to a "democratic d…
"Examining a century of twists and turns in anti-cancer campaigns, this path-breaking study shows how American cancer awareness, prevention, treatment, and survival have been refracted through the lens of race. As cancer went from being a white woman's nemesis to a "democratic d…
"Examining a century of twists and turns in anti-cancer campaigns, this path-breaking study shows how American cancer awareness, prevention, treatment, and survival have been refracted through the lens of race. As cancer went from being a white woman's nemesis to a "democratic d…
"Examining a century of twists and turns in anti-cancer campaigns, this path-breaking study shows how American cancer awareness, prevention, treatment, and survival have been refracted through the lens of race. As cancer went from being a white woman's nemesis to a "democratic d…
"Examines the impact and importance of the health education film in Europe and North America in the first half of the twentieth century"--