Marketing health : smoking and the discourse of public health in Britain, 1945-2000 /

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Author / Creator:Berridge, Virginia.
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Description:xv, 338 p. : ill., ports ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6660407
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ISBN:9780199260300 (alk. paper)
0199260303 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [288]-309) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction. Marketing Health: Smoking and the Discourse of Public Health, 1945-2000
  • 1. Public Health in the 1950s: The Watershed of Smoking and Lung Cancer
  • 2. Medicine and the Media: Marketing Public Health in the 1960s
  • 3. Systematic Gradualism: Harm Reduction, Public Health, and the Industry, 1950s-1971
  • 4. Technical Public Health: The 1971 Cross-Government Enquiry and the Rise of Economics
  • 5. Expert Committees and Regulation in the 1970s
  • 6. The Rise of Health Activism in the 1970s: The Health Pressure Group
  • 7. The New Public Health Package
  • 8. Environment and Infectious Disease in the 1980s: From Passive Smoking to AIDS
  • 9. Medicating the Underclass? Pharmaceutical Public Health and the Discovery of Addiction
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix. Who Has Smoked and How Much
  • Bibliography
  • Index