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Roots of Contemporary Issues Ser.: Chronic Disparities : Public Health in Historical Perspective by Sean Andrew Wempe, Jesse Spohnholz and Clif Stratton (2020, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100190696257
ISBN-139780190696252
eBay Product ID (ePID)11050019585
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Number of Pages176 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameChronic Disparities : Public Health in Historical Perspective
Publication Year2020
SubjectPublic Health, General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaMedical, History
AuthorSean Andrew Wempe, Jesse Spohnholz, Clif Stratton
SeriesRoots of Contemporary Issues Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight10 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6 in
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LCCN2020-008893
Reviews"Some of us love history for its own sake, but for most students the contents of a college history course seem detached, unrelated to their lives, even meaningless. Yet we are surrounded by the legacy of history. Everything around us--policy, population, culture, economy, environment--is a product of the actions and activities of people in the past. How can we hope to address the challenges we face and resolve contentious issues--inequality, health, immigration, climate change--without understanding where they come from? The volumes in the Roots of Contemporary Issues series are the tested products of years of classroom teaching and research. They address controversial issues with impartiality but not detachment, combining historical context and human agency to create accounts that are meaningful and usable for any student confronting the complex world in which they will live."--Trevor R. Getz, San Francisco State University "This is a truly innovative series that promises to revolutionize how world history is taught, freeing students and faculty alike from the 'tyranny of coverage' often embedded within civilizational paradigms, and facilitating sustained reflection on the roots of the most pressing issues in our contemporary world. Students' understanding of the importance of history and their interest in our discipline is sure to be heightened by these volumes that deeply contextualize and historicize current global problems."--Nicola Foote, Arizona State University "Most textbooks talk down to students or use an overly formal tone. Chronic Disparities avoids both of those traps. Students will connect with the chapters because each of them carries out the goals of the book of connecting current public health crises with a deeply rooted global historical past."--Jessica Pearson, Macalester College, "Some of us love history for its own sake, but for most students the contents of a college history course seem detached, unrelated to their lives, even meaningless. Yet we are surrounded by the legacy of history. Everything around us--policy, population, culture, economy, environment--is a product of the actions and activities of people in the past. How can we hope to address the challenges we face and resolve contentious issues--inequality, health, immigration, climate change--without understanding where they come from? The volumes in the Roots of Contemporary Issues series are the tested products of years of classroom teaching and research. They address controversial issues with impartiality but not detachment, combining historical context and human agency to create accounts that are meaningful and usable for any student confronting the complex world in which they will live."--Trevor R. Getz, San Francisco State University"This is a truly innovative series that promises to revolutionize how world history is taught, freeing students and faculty alike from the 'tyranny of coverage' often embedded within civilizational paradigms, and facilitating sustained reflection on the roots of the most pressing issues in our contemporary world. Students' understanding of the importance of history and their interest in our discipline is sure to be heightened by these volumes that deeply contextualize and historicize current global problems."--Nicola Foote, Arizona State University "Most textbooks talk down to students or use an overly formal tone. Chronic Disparities avoids both of those traps. Students will connect with the chapters because each of them carries out the goals of the book of connecting current public health crises with a deeply rooted global historical past."--Jessica Pearson, Macalester College
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Table Of ContentList of Maps/Figures Acknowledgments About the Author Series Introduction: Connecting the Past and Present Introduction Chapter 1. Health as a Public Utility--Local Plague Responses in the Christian & Islamic Worlds The 'Horrible Sickness' Charity & Conspiracies: Religion, the Poor, and Persecution of Jews Cairo: Mamluks, Ottomans, and Contagion Florence: Publica Utilitas, Sanitary Policies, and Persecution of the Poor Chapter 2. Cholera, Colonialism, and Class Sanitarians and Sewers: Cholera in Britain, 1830s to 1850s Removing the Pump Handle: The 1854 Broad Street Cholera Outbreak in London Cholera, Containment, and Centralization: Imperial Germany and the United States Reinforcing Inequalities: Cholera in British-controlled India into the 20th century Chapter 3. Controlling the Colonized & Female Bodies-VD Containment, Eugenics, & Experimentation in Metropole & Colony Mosquito Women: Tropical Medicine and Racism in STD Perception Politics of Prostitution: Imperial STD Controls Pregnancy as "STD": Racial Mixing and State Control of Sex The Eugenicists: Race Hygiene, STDs, and Reproductive Rights The "Doomed Race": Eugenics and Experimentation on Oppressed Racial Groups Chapter 4. "Civilizing" Addiction--From Local to Global Inequalities in the Standardization of Opium Controls Buddhism and Bans on Opium: Burma's Drug Controls Prior to British Rule From Medicine to Aphrodisiac to Pathology: Opium, Gender, and Class in China "Politics of the Poppy": Substance Control in the United Kingdom "Lady Britannia and her Children": Substance Control in the British Empire Global Drug Diplomacy: Replicating British Prejudices in Narcotics Control Worldwide Chapter 5. The Global AIDS Crisis--Stigma, Patronage, and Dependency Networks The Stigma of Disease: "Risk Groups" and Constructs of Morality The "Geography of Blame": Haiti as the Origin of HIV? "Out of Africa": Imperialism's Influence on Scientific Thought Good Intentions, Flawed Foundations: USAID, UNAIDS, & NGOs Uganda and TASO: Success, Discrimination, and Dependency Conclusion Index
SynopsisGrowing directly out of the experiences of a team of Washington State University historians who designed a new foundational course for WSU's common requirements, the Roots of Contemporary Issues series is built on the premise that students will be better at facing current and future challenges, no matter their major or career path, if they are capable of addressing controversial and pressing issues in mature, reasoned ways using evidence, critical thinking, and clear written and oral communication skills. To help students achieve these goals, each title in the Roots of Contemporary Issues series argues that today's problems are not simply the outcomes of yesterday's decisions: they are shaped by years, decades, and centuries of historical developments. Solving the central problems facing our world requires a deep historical understanding of the ways in which humans have been interconnected with faraway places for centuries. Chronic Disparities : Public Health in Historical Perspective begins with a controversial and pressing issue facing students today: how have public health initiatives challenged and/or reinforced societal inequalities of race, class, and gender? It explores the cultural, political, religious, demographic, and economic effects both government and private public-health practices have had on inequalities of race, class, and gender in an increasingly globalizing society, from the pre-Modern era to the present. Chronic Disparities examines events and processes including the emergence of public health and sanitation in Europe; the coercive globalization of systems of health; colonial medicine and the selective application of "Western" medical policy; eugenics; responses to substance abuse; the AIDS/HIV pandemic; and many more. It includes a series introduction that explains this innovative approach to learning history and a conclusion that offers a model for applying the approach in seeking to understand other public health policies, events, and crises., Growing directly out of the experiences of a team of Washington State University historians who designed a new foundational course for WSU's common requirements, the Roots of Contemporary Issues series is built on the premise that students will be better at facing current and future challenges, no matter their major or career path, if they are capable of addressing controversial and pressing issues in mature, reasoned ways using evidence, critical thinking, and clear written and oral communication skills. To help students achieve these goals, each title in the Roots of Contemporary Issues series argues that today's problems are not simply the outcomes of yesterday's decisions: they are shaped by years, decades, and centuries of historical developments. Solving the central problems facing our world requires a deep historical understanding of the ways in which humans have been interconnected with faraway places for centuries. Chronic Disparities: Public Health in Historical Perspective begins with a controversial and pressing issue facing students today: how have public health initiatives challenged and/or reinforced societal inequalities of race, class, and gender? It explores the cultural, political, religious, demographic, and economic effects both government and private public-health practices have had on inequalities of race, class, and gender in an increasingly globalizing society, from the pre-Modern era to the present. Chronic Disparities examines events and processes including the emergence of public health and sanitation in Europe; the coercive globalization of systems of health; colonial medicine and the selective application of "Western" medical policy; eugenics; responses to substance abuse; the AIDS/HIV pandemic; and many more. It includes a series introduction that explains this innovative approach to learning history and a conclusion that offers a model for applying the approach in seeking to understand other public health policies, events, and crises.
LC Classification NumberRA425.W46 2021
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