Conceptualising Public Health: Historical and Contemporary Struggles Over Key Concepts

ISBN-13: 9781138036833 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 227 str.

Opis

This book discusses how understandings of public health have developed in their political and social context over the twentieth century, identifying ruptures and redefinitions in its conceptualisation. It analyses the dynamic rhetorical play through which key concepts have been used as political tools, on the one hand, and shaped the operating environment of public health, on the other. Providing examples from Northern Europe situated in an international context, the authors collected here each examine a particular way of understanding public health and assess how key actors or phenomena have challenged, altered or confirmed past and present meanings of the concept.

Spis treści

1. Conceptualising Public Health: An Introduction 2. Conceptualising Eugenics and Racial Hygiene as Public Health Theory and Practice 3. Female Doctors, Prophylactic Health Care and Public Health 4. The Nazi’s Cloven Hoof: Finnish Critiques of Legal Sterilisation 5. Universal, But Exclusive? The Shifting Meanings of Pre- and Post-War Public Health in Finland 6. The People’s Health, the Nation’s Health, the World’s Health: Folkhälsa and folkehelse in the Writings of Axel Höjer and Karl Evang 7. Cherishing the Health of the People: Finnish Non-Governmental Expert Organisations as Constructors of Public Health and the ‘People’ 8. Public Health Categories in the Making of Citizenship: The Case of Refugees and Roma in Sweden 9. Alcohol Consumption as a Public Health Problem 1885–1992 10. Mainstreaming Concepts, Discounting Variations? Global Policies of Alcohol, Drug and Tobacco 11. Science, Politics and Public Health: The North Karelia Project 1971–1983 12. The Individualisation of Health in Late Modernity 13. Editors’ Note: Transitions in the Conceptual History of Public Health

O autorze

Johannes Kananen is Adjunct Professor of Social Policy and works currently as Senior Lecturer at the Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki, Finland. Sophy Bergenheim is a PhD Candidate in political history at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Merle Wessel is Lecturer in Nordic history at the University of Greifswald, Germany.