...This chapter examines the use of imagery in the hookworm campaigns of the Rockefeller Foundation’s International Health Board (IHB) in Australia and South and Southeast Asia. Drawing upon the photographs and other files of public health advocate Wilbur Augustus Sawyer between 1919 and 1924...

...This chapter examines the work of W. W. Peter, an American in China who was commissioned to implement public health education campaigns during the period 1912–1926. It considers a range of visual media—from maternal and infant care exhibits installed in local markets to public demonstrations of men...

...This chapter examines the role of maps as graphic propaganda for public health: from John Snow’s map of the infamous Broad (now Broadwick) Street pump in London’s Soho, first created during the cholera epidemic of 1854, to epidemiological maps used by government agencies in the early twenty-first...

... different from other patients, either in bodily essence or behavior. These men evaluated Indian health using categories and standards that echoed those applied to American soldiers and to residents of cities with public health departments. Like Hudson’s Bay Company employees earlier, but also like...

... , Fit to Be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879–1939 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006), 3. 4 Herbert M. Morais , The History of the Afro-American in Medicine (Cornwells Heights, Pa.: Publishers Agency, 1978), 66–68;   Michael Byrd...

... of the relationship of African Americans to the American health care system in the twentieth century, it has to be this Study. To summarize, the crucial facts seem clear at first: In a forty-year study (1932–1972) white government doctors from the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) found approximately 400 African...

...From seventeenth-century broadsides about the handling of dead bodies, printed during London’s plague years, to YouTube videos about preventing the transmission of STDs, public health advocacy and education has always had a powerful visual component. This book explores the diverse visual culture...

... reducing the heterogeneous histories of people of color and Western biomedicine to standard stories of medical racism or simple binaries of power and resistance, the essays highlight the contradictions and historical contingencies that mark the ways in which medical knowledge and public health policy work...

... symbolizes a pioneering transformation that had defined middle class living. The innovations of apartment living and considerations of public health—first envisioned in Dadar–Matunga—have since come to define a broader sense of community and a restructuring of previous cast systems due to economic...

...The chapter considers viral pandemics enabled by the transcontinental airline system, one which is rarely seen as a threat to public health. It explores how we have addressed disease transfer in the past and examines what we might learn from that to protect ourselves today, using abductive...

...This chapter examines the nineteenth-century visual culture of two public health problems that affected skin, scabies and favus, as both public health and dermatology came to terms with the professional issues of classification, language, concept formation, and descriptive thought. Using a variety...

... a matter of public health and global conscience. childhood trauma child psychoanalysis infant vision in children autistic child welfare international discourses of Freud Anna global health children’s Klein Melanie public health images for adolescents social orphans Spitz René United Nations...

...This chapter examines the ways in which those psychological states classified under the rubric of “mood disorders” have been treated as a public health problem from the eighteenth century onward. It looks at historical and contemporary examples from images and films that teach us what mood...

..., placing them outside the nation. When cholera ran rampant through Mexico in 1833, Native communities were excluded from the 7 Mexican government’s public health program. Even if they were allies of the state, Native peoples who did not live in Mexican towns or settlements remained on the outside...

...Figure 6.1. New Mexican midwives as depicted in state public health literature. New Mexico Health Officer, December 1938, p. 47. New Mexico Supreme Court Law Library State Agency Collection. Courtesy New Mexico State Records Center and Archives, Accession No. 1998–027. Figure...

... reproduced and challenged the racializing impulses of colonial biomedicine. 60 Ibid. , 7. 61 Ibid. , 6. 62 Irene Cabral, interview by Ruth Smith , Grove Farm Oral History Project, “Public Health Services and Family Health on Kauai, 1920–1955,” February 26, 1982 , typed transcript, Grove Farm...

...Figure 8.1. This photograph of Mexican families appeared on the cover of the California State Board of Health Monthly Bulletin, October 1916, to illustrate the dangers of Mexican immigration. Natalia Molina This chapter provides insight into how public health and immigration...

... Molina , Fit to Be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879–1939 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006), 2;   Nayan Shah , Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), 12...

... to lose but the misery and desolation which surrounds all of our lives.” ²⁴ Stennis and Eastland then introduced Dr. A. L. Gray, director of the Mississippi State Board of Health, who had been charged by that state’s governor with investigating public health to determine whether children were...

... good.” Second, his objections on this legalistic point, along with his evocation of the possibly imaginary educated black doctor in Charleston, allowed him to claim that the central issue was one not of race but of public health and safety. The aim of the Charleston law, he wrote, was to “throw...