Health Education Films in the Twentieth Century

Christian Bonah editor David Cantor editor Anja Laukötter editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published:1st Mar '18

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Examines the impact and importance of the health education film in Europe and North America in the first half of the twentieth century. 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 publichealth film and other forms of motion picture. CONTRIBUTORS: Christian Bonah, Tim Boon, David Cantor, Ursula von Keitz, Anja Laukötter, 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 Laukötter is a historian at the Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin.

This weighty book allows insight into the depth of topics covered in twentieth century health films, and the impact of film on health policy and attitudes to medical professionals. * HEALTH AND HISTORY *
This wide-ranging collection convinces on the importance of the health education film as a medium that stretches beyond the specific confines of the films themselves. It should, therefore, be of value not only to historians of public health, but also those interested in the broader socio-political impact of film and other new media. * SOCIAL HISTORY *
Its interdisciplinary focus will make it an interesting read for a wide range of scholars. * BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE *

ISBN: 9781580469166

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Weight: 724g

380 pages