Exhibiting health : public health displays in the progressive era

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    • Koslow, Jennifer Lisa
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Exhibiting health : public health displays in the progressive era

Jennifer Lisa Koslow

(Critical issues in health and medicine)

Rutgers University Press, c2020

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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In the early twentieth century, public health reformers approached the task of ameliorating unsanitary conditions and preventing epidemic diseases with optimism. Using exhibits, they believed they could make systemic issues visual to masses of people. Embedded within these visual displays were messages about individual action. In some cases, this meant changing hygienic practices. In other situations, this meant taking up action to inform public policy. Reformers and officials hoped that exhibits would energize America's populace to invest in protecting the public's health. Exhibiting Health is an analysis of the logic of the production and the consumption of this technique for popular public health education between 1900 and 1930. It examines the power and limits of using visual displays to support public health initiatives.

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Contents Introduction 1. Developing Exhibition as a Tool for Popular Education 2. The Art of Exhibit Making 3. Health Trains: An Experiment in Traveling Exhibits 4. Controversial Exhibits Conclusion Acknowledgements Index

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