Publics and Their Health

Alex Mold is Associate Professor in History at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicinePeder Clark is Research Fellow in History at the University of StrathclydeHannah J. Elizabeth is Research Fellow in History at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

• Introduction: publics and their health – historical problems and perspectives – Alex Mold, Peder Clark and Hannah J. Elizabeth1 ‘Democracy trains its microscope’ on public health: intergovernmental relations, competing publics and negotiations at the grassroots – Jennifer Gunn2 ‘Dumping grounds for… human waste’: containing problem populations in post-war British public health policy, 1945–74 – Michael Lambert 3 Socialism, health and the politics of identity: conversations from East Germany’s AIDS crisis – Johanna Folland4 Forgoing fat: food choice, disease prevention and the role of the food industry in health promotion in England, 1980–92 – Jane Hand 5 At the borders of the public: immigrant and migrant publics and the right to health – Beatrix Hoffman 6 The emergence of violence as a public health problem in Argentina – Martín Hernán Di MarcoAfterword: from Asiatic cholera to COVID-19 – the many publics of modern public health – Tom CrookIndex