TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mold,Alex
AU  - Clark,Peder
AU  - Millward,Gareth
AU  - Payling,Daisy
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Placing the Public in Public Health in Post-War Britain, 1948–2012
T2  - Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
SN  - 9783030186852
AV  - DA1-995 
U1  - 941 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Pivot
KW  - Great Britain—History
KW  - Medicine—History
KW  - Medical policy
KW  - History, Modern
KW  - Social history
KW  - History of Britain and Ireland
KW  - History of Medicine
KW  - Health Policy
KW  - Modern History
KW  - Social History
N1  - 1 Introduction -- 2 The Public and Public Health -- 3 Imagining Publics -- 4 Speaking Back -- 5 Changing Publicness -- 6 Conclusion; Open Access
N2  - This open access book explores the question of who or what ‘the public’ is within ‘public health’ in post-war Britain. Drawing on historical research on the place of the public in public health in Britain from the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948, the book presents a new perspective on the relationship between state and citizen. Focusing on health education, health surveys, heart disease and the development of vaccination policy and practice, the book establishes that ‘the public’ was not one thing but many. It considers how public health policy makers and practitioners imagined the public or publics. These publics were not mere constructions; they had agency and the ability to ‘speak back’ to public health. The nature of publicness changed during the latter half of the twentieth century, and this book argues that the relationship between the public and public health offers a powerful lens through which to examine such shifts
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18685-2
ER  -