scholarly journals Introduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Katerina Gardikas
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Medical History ◽  
Social Medicine ◽  
Social Relevance ◽  
Health History ◽  
Public Health History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Recent Trends

This collection of articles was conceived long before the outbreak and worldwide spread of Covid-19. It was intended as a review of recent trends in the writing of modern medical history in Greece thanks to the broader social relevance of public health history. While it still represents current ideas on the history of health and medicine among its Greek practitioners, it appears, nonetheless, at a time when public opinion has put the notions of public health, contagion and governance into sharp relief as societies are being overwhelmed by insecurity and a primal sensation of fear. Thus, public health and social medicine have entered the historiographical limelight.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Kathleen Bachynski
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Sports History ◽  
Cultural Attitudes ◽  
Health History ◽  
Public Health History ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
History Of ◽  
Tackle Football ◽  
American Schools

Questions about the safety of youth tackle football, its intimate association with American schools, and its existence as a form of entertainment for adults are as old as the game itself. This book examines the history of debates over the safety of youth football—not only changing medical understandings of the sport’s health effects but also the social and cultural attitudes that shaped those understandings. With its focus on safety debates, No Game for Boys to Play provides a bridge between sports history and public health history, examines the values and beliefs animating the development of one of America’s most popular activities for boys, and considers how football’s effects on children’s bodies came to be framed as a matter of public health and well-being.

scholarly journals A morning with Louis Pasteur: a short history of the “clean hands”

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro ◽  
Marli Maria Lima
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Hand Hygiene ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Short History ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health History ◽  
Public Health History ◽  
History Of

Abstract: This article examines the story of Louis Pasteur from the point of view of a classic movie presented at the Weekly Seminars of the “Oswaldo Cruz Institute”, at the end of the 2017 activities. Although very old, the movie The Story of Louis Pasteur (Warner Bros., 1936) inspired spectators and gave rise to an energetic debate that led the authors to decide for publishing the comments of the Seminar Coordinator, the guest commentator and the audience. The movie communicates to the public the legacy of one of the greatest precursors of the public health history using also fictional characters. The article presents the reliable passages in Pasteur’s biography and the fictional ones, without disrespecting the production of the creators of cinematographic work. The major merit of the movie, one of the first steps towards the policy of scientific diffusion, is to disclose the importance of vaccines and hand hygiene to prevent infectious diseases. The authors argue that the film-maker impeccably captured the scientist’s tenacity in the relentless search for discoveries and Pasteur’s idea that only persistent work can lead to rewarding results, remembering that the context created by previous researchers enabled Pasteur to establish new paradigms. Finally, the authors cite movie passages illustrating realities that are still in force: (i) the inertial resistance of science to new paradigms, illustrated by the medical-scientific community opposing to simple practices proposition, such as washing hands and boiling instruments, and (ii) the excessive confidence, and even arrogance, of some specialists, instead of serenity and humility that arise from committed study and accumulated knowledge.

scholarly journals Perspectives from the History of Medicine Division of the United States National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health

2011 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 413-418
Author(s):  
Jeffrey S. Reznick
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
History Of Medicine ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Library ◽  
Surgeon General ◽  
Health History ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Public Health History ◽  
History Of

2011 marks the 175th anniversary of the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) that traces its origins to 1836 and the commitment of the second US Army Surgeon General, Thomas Lawson (1789–1861), to purchase books and journals for active-duty medical officers. The occasion affords an opportunity to focus on the contributions of the NLM to the history of medicine and public health, and to look forward into the digital world of the twenty-first century as the NLM joins with like-minded institutions, scholars, educators, writers, students, and others to expand knowledge of medical and public health history for the advancement of scholarship across the disciplines and for the education of the general public. As more audiences become interested in medical and public health history, opportunities abound to broaden and deepen understanding of the past, present, and future of medicine and public health in order to help refine critical thinking about medicine and science, promote deeper understanding of medical and scientific concepts, and generally humanise medicine and public health by revealing the implications of disease and healthcare for individuals and communities in the United States and around the world.

Public Health

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Hamlin
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Criticism ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Health History ◽  
Public Health History ◽  
Concept Of Health ◽  
Public Health Institutions ◽  
Health Institutions ◽  
Improve Health ◽  
Do So

This article begins with an expansive and ideal concept of health, which can serve as an analytical tool to evaluate public health. History is frequently deployed in the shaping of public health institutions. As such, public health history has often been a form of social criticism. It recognizes ways in which a society has not facilitated health and explores how it might better do so. This article discusses three reasons that project of bettering the public's health draws on history. Interest in public health emerged at the confluence of two related historical questions, which, with some additions, continue to frame much public health history. The grand issues of politics, power, and possibility remain central; the prospect for policies that will improve health overall is much less positive than it once was.

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