Public health regulation and mortality: Evidence from early 20th century milk laws

2017 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 126-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Komisarow
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Public Health Regulation

Exit from the Regime of Life Control: Biopolitics, Anticipatory Risk and the Excess of Experience

Somatechnics ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 412-433
Author(s):  
Niamh Stephenson ◽  
Dimitris Papadopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Infectious Disease ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Culture System ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Democratic Regime ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Ordinary Experience ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Everyday

In its early 20th century materialisation, risk was calculable and these calculations were primarily based on assessments of the past. By the end of the century, risk was increasingly considered to be fundamentally incalculable and it has become the object of the work of anticipation. This paper elucidates this shift by examining three regimes of life control. The Life/Culture System pervades early 20th century cultural and political thinking: working with the vitalism of life promises a better future. Following WWII, life's vitalism, creativity and potential and are viewed with suspicion. The State is valorised as the guarantor of an objective, accountable and democratic regime of life control. Biopolitics comes to the fore; risk is called forth. Today, there is a renewed interest in life's inherent plasticity, in controlling life by recombining life. Efforts to work with free-floating and incalculable risk signal a new regime of control: the Emergent Formation of Life . However, something is commonly neglected here: the domain of the everyday. This paper argues that the Emergent Formation of Life regulates life by inscribing emergent recombinant practices into people's everyday experience. Exit from the Emergent Formation of Life takes place on same terrain – immanent, ordinary experience. An analysis of shifts in public health efforts to contain infectious disease and of the everyday experience of life beyond population health illustrates this argument.

scholarly journals Trópusi veszélyek Indiában a 19. századi magyar utazási útleírásokban

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-152
Author(s):  
Aletta Gergely
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Travel Literature ◽  
Lunatic Asylum ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
British Government ◽  
Psychoactive Substances ◽  
Normal Behaviour ◽  
Epidemic Diseases

This study investigates the tropical dangers in India in the late 19th and early 20th century through the Hungarian travel literature. The first part of the study examines the evolution of public health and the beginnings of the tropical medicine in India. The second part includes questions about madness and normal behaviour and I wrote about the lunatic asylum as well. The next section is about epidemic diseases like leprosy, malaria, cholera and plague. Tivadar Duka, M. D. and Ferenc Gáspár M. D. published articles about Colonial epidemics and public health. In order to control epidemics, special officers, committees, and commissioners were appointed by the British. Snake attacks also took their victims, so the British Government had to find a solution for the problem. In the last chapter I wrote about the use of psychoactive substances in India, like opium or cannabis.

General William Gorgas: outstanding medical administrator

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (8) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Harold Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Yellow Fever ◽  
100Th Anniversary ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Health Administrator

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the death of General William Crawford Gorgas, probably the most famous public health administrator, who first achieved fame for his work in dealing with the epidemic of yellow fever in Cuba in the early 20th century.

Cornerstone Documents, Milestones, and Policies: Shaping the Direction of Public Health Nursing 1890-1950

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Kub ◽  
Pamela Kulbok ◽  
Doris Glick
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Nursing Leadership ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Public Health Nursing ◽  
Public Health Nurses ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Health Nursing

The interplay of policy, milestone events, and cornerstone documents was critical in the evolution of the specialty of public health nursing (PHN) from 1890-1950. Using our contemporary lens, this article examines PHN development from an historical perspective, including events and milestones driving growth in the early 20th century. Some of the challenges faced by our founding public health nursing leadership are not unlike challenges we face today. In 1950, Ruth Hubbard, a former leader in the National Organization of Public Health Nurses and Director of the Visiting Nurse Society of Philadelphia, spoke of the value of examining the past to forge a new future. This article calls for contemporary public health nurses to act upon the lessons learned from the past, to strengthen the renewed focus on prevention, to develop policies that impact population health, and to foster a vision that will guide us into the future.

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