Be Wise! Be Healthy!

Morality and Citizenship in Canadian Public Health Campaigns

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

Lose weight. Quit smoking. Exercise more. For over a century, governments and voluntary groups have run educational campaigns encouraging Canadians to adopt healthy habits in order to prolong lives, cost the state less, and produce more efficient workers. Be Wise! Be Healthy! explores the history of public health in Canada from the 1920s to the 1970s. Through the Health League of Canada, people were urged to drink pasteurized milk, immunize their children, and avoid extramarital sex. Health was presented as a responsibility of citizenship – and doctors and dentists as expert guides.Public health campaigns have reduced preventable deaths. But such campaigns can also stigmatize marginalized populations by implying that poor health is due to inadequate self-care, despite clear links between health and external factors such as poverty and trauma. This clear-eyed study demonstrates that while we may well celebrate the successes of public health campaigns, they are not without controversy.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-05-01
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:580 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:308
Förlag:University of British Columbia Press
ISBN:9780774837187

Utforska kategorier

Folkhälsa och hälsopedagogik inom Medicin
Medicinhistoria inom Medicin
Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Catherine Carstairs is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Guelph. Her publications include Jailed for Possession: Illegal Drug Use, Regulation, and Power in Canada, 1920–1961 and Feminist History in Canada: New Essays on Women, Gender, Work, and Nation, edited with Nancy Janovicek. Bethany Philpott is a family medicine resident at Queen's University, Belleville-Quinte.Sara Wilmshurst's research on the Health League of Canada sparked her interest in nonprofit organizations, and she now works in fundraising.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Creating Healthy Citizens1 "Tell Your Children the Truth": The Canadian Social Hygiene Council and Venereal Disease Education2 Expanding the Mission: Publicizing Public Health3 "Stamp Out VD!" The Health League of Canada and Venereal Disease Education during the 1940s and 1950s4 Preventing Sickness and Absenteeism: The Health League and the Workplace5 "The Human Factory": Nutrition, Efficiency, and Longevity6 Fighting Apathy and Ignorance: National Campaigns7 "A Malicious, Mendacious Minority": Fighting for Water Fluoridation8 Circling the Drain: The League's Slow DeclineConclusion: The Successes and Failures of Preventive HealthNotes; Index