Kananen / Bergenheim / Wessel Conceptualising Public Health

Historical and Contemporary Struggles over Key Concepts
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-71287-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 243 Seiten

Covering a period stretching from the late nineteenth century to the present day, this book discusses how understandings and meanings of public health have developed in their political and social context, identifying ruptures and redefinitions in its conceptualisation. It analyses the multifaceted and interactive rhetorical play through which key concepts have been used as political tools, on the one hand, and shaped the understanding and operating environment of public health, on the other.

Focusing on the blurred boundaries between the social and the medico-scientific realms, from social hygiene to population policy, Conceptualising Public Health explores the sometimes contradictory and paradoxical normative aims associated with the promotion of public health. Providing examples from the Nordic countries, the UK and Germany, whilst situating them in a larger European and international context, it addresses questions such as:

- How has the concept of public health been used in government and associated administrative practices from the early twentieth century up to the present?

- How has health citizenship been constructed over time?

- How has the collective national entity of ‘the people’ been associated with and reflected in the concept of public health?

Drawn from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, the authors collected here each examine a particular way of understanding public health and assess how key actors or phenomena have challenged, altered or confirmed past and present meanings of the concept. Conceptualising Public Health is of interest to students and scholars of health and welfare state development from diverse backgrounds, including public health, sociology of health and illness, history and social policy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kananen, Johannes

Bergenheim, Sophy

Wessel, Merle

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: The History of Public Health Sophy Bergenheim, Johannes Kananen and Merle Wessel

2. Conceptualising Eugenics and Racial Hygiene as Public Health Theory and Practice Paul Weindling

3. Female Doctors, Eugenics and Prophylactic Health Care Merle Wessel

4. Public Health versus Civic Rights: Finnish Critiques of Legal Sterilisation Ainur Elmgren

5. The Shifting Meanings of Pre- and Post-War Public Health Minna Harjula

6. Leading Individuals in the Nordic Promotion of Public Health Annika Berg and Teemu Ryymin

7. Civic Expert Organisations as Constructors of Public Health and ‘the People’ Sophy Bergenheim

8. The Challenge of Alcohol to Public Health Johan Edman

9. Science, Politics and the Administration of Public Health Johannes Kananen

10. Human Rights and Public Health: The Metamorphosis of the Relationship between the State and the Individual Johan Strang

11. The Individualisation of Health in Late Modernity Helena Tolvhed and Outi Hakola

12. The Usefulness of ‘Social Disability’: Governing Deviance in Policy and Practice Norma Montessino and Ida Ohlsson al Fakir

13. A Members-only Club? Undocumented Migrants and the Limits of Public Health Miika Tervonen

14. Conclusions: Past, Present and Future Conceptualisations of Public Health Johan Strang, Merle Wessel, Sophy Bergenheim and Johannes Kananen

Über Autor(innen)

Johannes Kananen is a Senior Lecturer at the Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Sophy Bergenheim is a doctoral student in political history at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Merle Wessel is a doctoral student at the Centre for Nordic Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland.