William Coleman. Death is a Social Disease: Public Health and Political Economy in Early Industrial France. (Wisconsin Publications in the History of Science and Medicine, number 1.) Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 1982. Pp. xxi, 322. $35.00

1983 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
History Of

Legislators' Plague

2022 ◽  
pp. 47-59
Author(s):  
José Ferraz-Caetano ◽  
Bruno D. A. Pinheiro
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Contemporary Debate ◽  
Legislative Action ◽  
Public Health Emergencies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Legislative Policy

This chapter brings important novel insights and perspectives to the urging contemporary debate on public hygienist policies. The authors intend to explore how an episode of history of science can be used to explore the struggles of universal pandemic responses. The focus will be on the inception of science-based legislation, created to deal with public health emergencies, and their communication and social acceptance. They argue if any of the symptoms of science misinformation and a weak science foundation of legislative action identified in the 2020 coronavirus pandemic can be identified in an early 20th-century outbreak of bubonic plague in Portugal. They present a national legislative policy timeline towards the pandemic effort in the form of consolidated legislative responses to fight Porto's emerging pandemic in 1899. They also provide future studies on science-based policy with newfound material, aiding the characterization of the communication and eventual harmonization of concerted responses in preempting the spread of pandemics.

Science and Medicine

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tita Chico
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
History Of

Abstract Abstract The titles reviewed in this chapter concern science and medicine studies. They represent work drawn from a variety of contexts and disciplinary perspectives, including science and technology, the history of science, literary studies, critical race theory, public health, the philosophy of science, law, ethnography, anthropology, architecture, and geology. The chapter has five sections: 1. Histories and Historicity; 2. Epistemology and Dissemination; 3. Institutions and Praxis; 4. Bodies and Subjectivities; and 5. Conversations (Journals).

Malaria and the Political Economy of Public Health

1977 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 557-579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Cleaver
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
History Of ◽  
The American South ◽  
The Third World

After more than a decade when the disease was under increasing control, malaria has been making a dramatic resurgence in the 1970s. Even more troubling has been the inadequacy of government response despite appeals by public health officials and despite the availability of adequate resources. This article seeks an understanding of this decontrol in the history of the political economy of public health and in an analysis of the current international economic crisis. An examination of several episodes in the history of malaria control and related public health programs shows how they have played a role in and been defined by a series of social and political conflicts. These conflicts have included agrarian unrest in the American South, colonial expansion in the Third World, peasant revolution in China, the Cold War, and a whole series of urban and rural upheavals for and against development in the post-World War II period. An examination of the current world crisis suggests that it is another such period of social conflict—one in which various sectors of business and various governments are trying to restore the conditions of growth and accumulation which were ruptured in the late 1960s by an international cycle of social instability. Allowing malaria to spread, like allowing drought and flood to turn into famine, thus appears as a de facto repressive use of “nature” to reestablish social control. Such circumstances raise hard questions both for the public at large and for public health workers as to the most effective means of reversing these trends.

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