TY  - BOOK
AU  - Koslow,Jennifer Lisa
TI  - Exhibiting health: public health displays in the progressive era 
T2  - Critical issues in health and medicine
SN  - 9781978803282
AV  - RA425 .E945 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New Brunswick, New Jersey
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Health education
KW  - United States
KW  - Exhibitions
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Public health
KW  - Communicable diseases
KW  - Exhibitions as Topic
KW  - Health Education
KW  - history
KW  - Public Health
KW  - Communicable Disease Control
KW  - Disease Transmission, Infectious
KW  - prevention & control
KW  - History, 20th Century
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Developing Exhibition as a Tool for Popular Education --; The Art of Exhibit Making --; Health Trains : An Experiment in Traveling Exhibits --; Controversial Exhibits; 2; b
N2  - "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. Health Exhibits 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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