Health Education Films in the Twentieth Century

Name: Health Education Films in the Twentieth Century
Brand: University of Rochester Press
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By Christian Bonah

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During the twentieth century, film came to be seen as a revolutionary technology that could entertain, document, instruct, and transform a mass audience. In the fields of medicine and public health, doctors, educators, health advocates, and politicians were especially enthusiastic about the potential of the motion picture for communicating about health-related topics, including sexually transmitted diseases, cancer, tuberculosis, smoking, alcoholism, and contraception. Focusing on the period from the 1910s to the 1960s, this book is the first collection to examine the history of the public health education film in Europe and North America. It explores how a variety of commercial, governmental, medical, and public health organizations in Europe and North America turned to movies to educate the public, reform their health behaviors, and manage their anxieties and hopes about health, illness, and medical and public health interventions. Moreover, by looking at categories of movies as well as individual examples, the book tackles questions of the representativeness of individual films and the relationship between the public health film and other forms of motion picture. CONTRIBUTORS: Christian Bonah, Tim Boon, David Cantor, Ursula von Keitz, Anja Laukotter, Elizabeth Lebas, Vincent Lowy, Kirsten Ostherr, Miriam Posner, Alexandre Sumpf Christian Bonah is a professor of the history of health and life sciences at the University of Strasbourg. David Cantor is a historian at the National Institutes of Health and the School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park. Anja Laukotter is a historian at the Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin.

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Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 382
Release Date:: 2018-03-01
Publication Date:: 2018-03-01
Publisher:: University of Rochester Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1580469167
ISBN13:: 9781580469166
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 769 g
Height:: 15.7 cm
Width:: 23.5 cm
Thickness:: 2.7 cm

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