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This collection of essays explores some of the complex relations
between meat and health in the twentieth century. It highlights a
complicated array of contradictory attitudes towards meat and human
health. They show how meat came to be regarded as a central part of
a modern healthy diet and trace critiques of meat-eating and the
meat industry.
By the beginning of the twentieth century, meat eating was a
regular part of daily life in the Western world. Whilst the extra
protein in this diet had a beneficial effect on growth and
resilience to certain diseases, excessive amounts were found to
promote cancer, heart disease and obesity. When it comes to meat
this is often what we talk about today: its implications for us,
our planet and our health. However, few seem to agree on what these
implications are. This collection of ten historical essays explores
some of the complex relations between meat and human health in
twentieth-century North America and Europe. Its subjects include
the relations between the meat and the pharmaceutical industries,
the slaughterhouse and the rise of endocrinology, the therapeutic
benefits of meat extracts and the short-lived fate of liver
ice-cream in the treatment of pernicious anaemia. Other articles
examine responses to BSE and bovine tuberculosis, cancer and meat
consumption, DES in cattle, American-style meat in Mexico and Nazi
attitudes towards meat eating. Together these papers highlight a
complicated array of often contradictory attitudes towards meat and
human health.
Body, Capital and Screens: Visual Media and the Healthy Self in the
20th Century brings together new research from leading scholars
from Europe and North America working at the intersection of film
and media studies and social and cultural history of the body. The
volume focuses on visual media in the twentieth century in Europe
and the U.S. that informed and educated people about life and
health as well as practices improving them. Through a series of
in-depth case studies, the contributors to this volume investigate
the relationships between film/television, private and public
actors of the health sector and economic developments. The book
explores the performative and interactive power of these visual
media on individual health understandings, perceptions and
practices. Body, Capital and Screens aims to better understand how
bodily health has evolved as a form of capital throughout the
century.
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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