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.
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