scholarly journals ‘Stop kissing and steaming!’: tuberculosis and the occupational health movement in Massachusetts and Lancashire, 1870–1918

Urban History ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
JANET GREENLEES
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Urban Living ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Movement ◽  
Social Concerns ◽  
Public Health Discourse ◽  
Health Discourse

Historians have argued that American social welfare reformers looked to Europe for examples of successful programmes. This article provides a counter-case where a progressive American state, Massachusetts, developed public health reforms prior to their British counterparts. Social concerns about reducing cases of tuberculosis in Massachusetts' cotton manufacturing cities led to the transference of the public health discourse from the urban living environment to the workplace. This same relationship could have been applied within the Lancashire industry. Instead, the urban public health discourse focused on living conditions. In both countries, local and state political structures influenced health campaigners' actions.

scholarly journals Introduction: Public Health and the Promise of Palestine

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 8-26
Author(s):  
Danya M. Qato
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Public Health Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Racial Capitalism ◽  
Special Collection ◽  
Public Health Discourse ◽  
Health Discourse

This introductory essay contextualizes the special collection of papers on the pandemic and seeks to map the terrain of extant public health research on Palestine and the Palestinians. In addition, it is a contribution in Palestine studies to a nascent yet propulsive conversation that has been accelerated by Covid-19 on the erasure of structures of violence, including those of settler colonialism and racial capitalism, within the discipline of epidemiology. Using public health as an analytic, this essay asks us to consider foundational questions that have long been sidelined in the public health discourse on Palestine, including the implications for health and health research of eliding ongoing settler colonialism. Rather than ignoring and reproducing their violence, this essay seeks to tackle these questions head-on in an attempt to imagine a future public health research agenda that centers health, and not simply survivability, for all Palestinians.

Vulnerability and Resilience: Use and Misuse of These Terms in the Public Health Discourse

2021 ◽  
pp. e1-e5
Author(s):  
David H. Chae ◽  
Shedra A. Snipes ◽  
Kara W. Chung ◽  
Connor D. Martz ◽  
Thomas A. LaVeist
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Health Discourse ◽  
Health Discourse

The history and promise of holism in health promotion

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 824-832 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie Michaelson ◽  
William Pickett ◽  
Colleen Davison
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Holistic Health ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Conceptual Clarity ◽  
Public Health Discourse ◽  
Health Discourse

AbstractHolism is an ancient theme concept that has resurfaced in recent literature, and that requires informed and intentional use in order to preserve its utility. This paper provides a historical and conceptual reintroduction of the notion of holism as it relates to health, with the hopes of informing the term's use in public health discourse. It also addresses the challenges that a lack of conceptual clarity about holistic health imposes on public health and health promotion discussions. It describes how the use and conceptualizations of holism are shifting in health promotion and argues that failing to accurately define and delineate its scope risks diluting its utility for future health promotion applications. We address these two problems, and build an argument for a rediscovery of the theory of holism in public health and health promotion, globally.

scholarly journals Normal Island: COVID-19, Border Control, and Viral Nationalism in UK Public Health Discourse

2021 ◽  
pp. 136078042110494
Author(s):  
Des Fitzgerald
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Border Control ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
Public Health Discourse ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Health Discourse ◽  
The Relationship

In this contribution, I present emergent analysis of a preoccupation with managing COVID-19 through border control, among non-Governmental public health actors and commentators. Through a reading of statements, tweets, and interviews from the ‘Independent Sage’ group – individually and collectively – I show how the language of border control, and of maintaining immunity within the national boundaries of the UK, has been a notable theme in the group’s analysis. To theorize this emphasis, I draw comparison with the phenomenon of ‘green nationalism’, in which the urgency of climate action has been turned to overtly nationalistic ends; I sketch the outlines of what I call ‘viral nationalism,’ a political ecology that understands the pandemic as an event occurring differentially between nation states, and thus sees pandemic management as, inter alia, a work of involuntary detention at securitized borders. I conclude with some general remarks on the relationship between public health, immunity, and national feeling in the UK.

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