Fighting obesity in England

2018 ◽  
pp. 59-78
Author(s):  
Peter Triantafillou ◽  
Naja Vucina
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Child Obesity ◽  
Obesity Management ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Zoom In ◽  
Historical Antecedents

This chapter analyses predominant forms of political rationalities, expert knowledge, and governing technologies employed in the attempt to govern obesity in England. First, we look into some of the historical antecedents to contemporary health promotion by briefly accounting for the preventive measures addressing obesity in the early twentieth century. We then turn to the re-casting of obesity as a question of lifestyle conduct during the 1980s. This is followed by an examination of the mobilisation of the community by the recent British governments and the attempt to apply behavioural knowledge and techniques (nudging) to governing obesity. Finally, we zoom in on the governing of child obesity and the role that the so-called fat camps play in obesity management.

Governing obesity in Denmark

2018 ◽  
pp. 79-98
Author(s):  
Peter Triantafillou ◽  
Naja Vucina
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Child Obesity ◽  
Epidemiological Studies ◽  
Political Concern ◽  
Obesity Control ◽  
Control Programmes

This chapter analyses predominant forms of political rationalities, expert knowledge, and governing technologies employed in the attempt to govern obesity in Denmark. If first examines how obesity became the object of biomedical and political concern through epidemiological studies. Moreover, it accounts for the key health promotion programmes employed to control obesity in Denmark. It points to the importance of a highly organized civil society, notably the gymnastics movement. Finally, by exploring two obesity control programmes targeting child obesity, the chapter examines the workings of health promotion.

scholarly journals ‘Unfortunate creatures’: The hazards of syphilis in wet-nursing

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-56
Author(s):  
Tomasz Sioda ◽  
Virginia Thorley
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Selection Criteria ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Times ◽  
Serious Disease ◽  
Medical Involvement ◽  
Wet Nurse

While the selection criteria for wet-nurses had little changed across two millennia, other aspects of their occupation were far from homogenous, changing under the diverse infl uences of culture, current threats to the health of wet-nurses and the babies they fed, contemporaneous medical knowledge and healthcare. Fears of the transmission of the prevailing infectious diseases of the times led to medical involvement at all levels, from selection and inspection of applicants for wet-nurse positions to treatment of illnesses that arose in the child. The article discusses the implications of syphilis, the most serious disease transmissible through wet-nursing before the discovery of antibiotics, and the preventive measures and treatment used by the physicians across fi ve centuries, according to the knowledge of the time. The period covered extends into the early-twentieth century.

scholarly journals Process Evaluation of the Living Green, Healthy and Thrifty (LiGHT) Web-Based Child Obesity Management Program: Combining Health Promotion with Ecology and Economy

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Jogova ◽  
Joshua Eun-Soo Song ◽  
Audrey Clare Campbell ◽  
Darren Warbuton ◽  
Tom Warshawski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Process Evaluation ◽  
Child Obesity ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Obesity Management ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Ecology And Economy

Knowing Individuals: Fingerprinting, Policing, and the Limits of Professionalization in 1920s Beijing

Modern China ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-192
Author(s):  
Daniel Asen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Police Academy ◽  
Global History ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Identification Practices ◽  
Shed Light

This article examines the adoption of modern fingerprinting in early twentieth-century China through a case study of the Fingerprint Society, an association affiliated with the Ministry of Interior’s police academy that was active in 1920s Beijing. The members of this association viewed fingerprinting as both a technique that could be used to demonstrate China’s adoption of globally accepted standards of policing and justice and a body of academic knowledge that could form the basis for a would-be profession of fingerprinting experts. While the Fingerprint Society ultimately failed to accomplish its profession-building goals, its activities nonetheless shed light on an early moment in the history of new identification practices in China as well as on dynamics that have shaped the global history of fingerprinting as an area of modern expert knowledge located ambiguously between policing and science.

Some Polish Composers of To-Day

Tempo ◽  
1948 ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
Andrzej Panufnik
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Fertile Soil ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Progressive Group ◽  
Karol Szymanowski

It is ten years since KAROL SZYMANOWSKI died at fifty-four. He was the most prominent representative of the “radical progressive” group of early twentieth century composers, which we call “Young Poland.” In their manysided and pioneering efforts they prepared the fertile soil on which Poland's present day's music thrives.

V1214: Edward Loughborough Keyes: An Early Twentieth Century Leader In Urology

2004 ◽  
Vol 171 (4S) ◽  
pp. 320-320
Author(s):  
Peter J. Stahl ◽  
E. Darracott Vaughan ◽  
Edward S. Belt ◽  
David A. Bloom ◽  
Ann Arbor
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

New insights into the controversy surrounding marine biological laboratory (Marine Station) facilities in the Firth of Clyde in the early twentieth century

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-170
Author(s):  
P. G. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Marine Biological Laboratory ◽  
Biological Station ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Biological Laboratory ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Marine Station ◽  
Regius Professor ◽  
Adjacent Island

Three letters from the Sheina Marshall archive at the former University Marine Biological Station Millport (UMBSM) reveal the pivotal significance of Sheina Marshall's father, Dr John Nairn Marshall, behind the scheme planned by Glasgow University's Regius Professor of Zoology, John Graham Kerr. He proposed to build an alternative marine station facility on Cumbrae's adjacent island of Bute in the Firth of Clyde in the early years of the twentieth century to cater predominantly for marine researchers.

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