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This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY-NC-ND
licence. Vaccinating Britain shows how the British public has
played a central role in the development of vaccination policy
since the Second World War. It explores the relationship between
the public and public health through five key vaccines -
diphtheria, smallpox, poliomyelitis, whooping cough and
measles-mumps-rubella (MMR). It reveals that while the British
public has embraced vaccination as a safe, effective and
cost-efficient form of preventative medicine, demand for
vaccination and trust in the authorities that provide it has ebbed
and flowed according to historical circumstances. It is the first
book to offer a long-term perspective on vaccination across
different vaccine types. This history provides context for students
and researchers interested in present-day controversies surrounding
public health immunisation programmes. Historians of the post-war
British welfare state will find valuable insight into changing
public attitudes towards institutions of government and vice versa.
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Sick Note shows how the question of 'who is really sick?' has never
been straightforward and will continue to perplex the British
state. Sick Note is a history of how the British state asked, 'who
is really sick?' Tracing medical certification for absence from
work from 1948 to 2010, Gareth Millward shows that doctors,
employers, employees, politicians, media commentators, and citizens
concerned themselves with measuring sickness. At various times,
each understood that a signed note from a doctor was not enough to
'prove' whether someone was really sick. Yet, with no better
alternative on offer, the sick note survived in practice and in the
popular imagination - just like the welfare state itself. Sick Note
reveals the interplay between medical, employment, and social
security policy. The physical note became an integral part of
working and living in Britain, while the term 'sick note' was often
deployed rhetorically as a mocking nickname or symbol of Britain's
economic and political troubles. Using government policy documents,
popular media, internet archives, and contemporary research,
Millward covers the evolution of medical certification and the
welfare state since the Second World War, demonstrating how
sickness and disability policies responded to demographic and
economic changes - though not always satisfactorily for
administrators or claimants. Moreover, despite the creation of 'the
fit note' in 2010, the idea of 'the sick note' has remained. With
the specific challenges posed by the global pandemic in the early
2020s, Sick Note shows how the question of 'who is really sick?'
has never been straightforward and will continue to perplex the
British state.
This open access book explores the question of who or what 'the
public' is within 'public health' in post-war Britain. Drawing on
historical research on the place of the public in public health in
Britain from the establishment of the National Health Service in
1948, the book presents a new perspective on the relationship
between state and citizen. Focusing on health education, health
surveys, heart disease and the development of vaccination policy
and practice, the book establishes that 'the public' was not one
thing but many. It considers how public health policy makers and
practitioners imagined the public or publics. These publics were
not mere constructions; they had agency and the ability to 'speak
back' to public health. The nature of publicness changed during the
latter half of the twentieth century, and this book argues that the
relationship between the public and public health offers a powerful
lens through which to examine such shifts.
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