Exhibiting Health : : Public Health Displays in the Progressive Era / / Jennifer Lisa Koslow.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
• VerfasserIn: Koslow, Jennifer Lisa,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (206 p.) :; 16 b-w images
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: Valuing the Visual in Public Health Education --; Chapter 1 Developing Exhibition as a Common Tool for Popular Education --; Chapter 2 The Art of Exhibit Making --; Chapter 3 Health Trains: --; Chapter 4 Controversial Exhibits --; Conclusion: A Gradual Decline --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781978803305; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704808; 9783110704600; 9783110690330
• DOI: 10.36019/9781978803305
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jennifer Lisa Koslow.

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.