Cultures of Oral Health: Discourses, Practices and Theory

ISBN-13: 9780367498511 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 288 str.

Claire L. Jones; Barry J. Gibson

Opis

Oral health is integral to well-being and quality of life. This important edited volume brings together leading scholars to address global oral health and the multiple ways in which theory, practice and discourse have shaped it in the modern period.

Spis treści

1. Oral health: an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary approach?, Part I: Professionalism, ethics and inequalities, 2. Do dentists’ views on professionalism include moral inclusiveness?, 3. Designing healthy smiles, 4. Feminism, pipelines and gender myths: interrogating gender equality and inclusion in dentistry, Part II: Cultural representations of the mouth and teeth, 5. Toothy tales: dentures in the writings of H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling, 6. Metaphors in the mouth: on dental fitness and iatronormativity, 7. ‘DO AS YOUR DENTIST TELLS YOU’: mouthwash advertising in interwar America, 8. Science, beauty and health: the explosion of toothpaste advertising in interwar America, Part III: The patient’s perspective, 9. Tommy’s teeth: trench mouth, dentures and dental health among British army recruits in World War One, 10. The mouth as the gateway to the leaky body: the visibility of internal bleeding in the mouths of people with haemophilia, 11. ‘Having work done’: the teeth, mouth and oral health as a body project, Part IV: State, surveillance and social justice, 12. ‘Enlightened employers of labour’? Oral health in the British factory, 1890-1950, 13. The state of tooth decay: dental knowledge, medical policy and fluoridation in Sweden, 1952-62, 14. The cultural politics of dental humanitarianism