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Exhibiting Health : Public Health Displays in the Progressive Era
Title
Exhibiting Health : Public Health Displays in the Progressive Era / Jennifer Lisa Koslow.
ISBN
9781978803305
Publication
New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2020]
Copyright Notice Date
©2020
Physical Description
1 online resource (206 p.) : 16 b-w images
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Notes
In English.
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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.
Variant and related titles
De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2020.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 17, 2022
Series
Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
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
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