1st Edition
Conceptualising Public Health Historical and Contemporary Struggles over Key Concepts
1. Conceptualising Public Health: An Introduction 2. Conceptualising Eugenics and Racial Hygiene as Public Health Theory and Practice 3. Female Doctors, Prophylactic Health Care and Public Health 4. The Nazi’s Cloven Hoof: Finnish Critiques of Legal Sterilisation 5. Universal, But Exclusive? The Shifting Meanings of Pre- and Post-War Public Health in Finland 6. The People’s Health, the Nation’s Health, the World’s Health: Folkhälsa and folkehelse in the Writings of Axel Höjer and Karl Evang 7. Cherishing the Health of the People: Finnish Non-Governmental Expert Organisations as Constructors of Public Health and the ‘People’ 8. Public Health Categories in the Making of Citizenship: The Case of Refugees and Roma in Sweden 9. Alcohol Consumption as a Public Health Problem 1885–1992 10. Mainstreaming Concepts, Discounting Variations? Global Policies of Alcohol, Drug and Tobacco 11. Science, Politics and Public Health: The North Karelia Project 1971–1983 12. The Individualisation of Health in Late Modernity 13. Editors’ Note: Transitions in the Conceptual History of Public Health
Biography
Johannes Kananen is Adjunct Professor of Social Policy and works currently as Senior Lecturer at the Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Sophy Bergenheim is a PhD Candidate in political history at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
Merle Wessel is Lecturer in Nordic history at the University of Greifswald, Germany.
