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Contagious Communities
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Author : Roberta E. Bivins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Contagious Communities written by Roberta E. Bivins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
It was only a coincidence that the NHS and the Empire Windrush (a ship carrying 492 migrants from Britain's West Indian colonies) arrived together. On 22 June 1948, as the ship's passengers disembarked, frantic preparations were already underway for 5 July, the Appointed Day when the nation's new National Health Service would first open its doors. The relationship between immigration and the NHS rapidly attained - and has enduringly retained - notable political and cultural significance. Both the Appointed Day and the post-war arrival of colonial and Commonwealth immigrants heralded transformative change. Together, they reshaped daily life in Britain and notions of 'Britishness' alike. Yet the reciprocal impacts of post-war immigration and medicine in post-war Britain have yet to be explored. Contagious Communities casts new light on a period which is beginning to attract significant historical interest. Roberta Bivins draws attention to the importance - but also the limitations - of medical knowledge, approaches, and professionals in mediating post-war British responses to race, ethnicity, and the emergence of new and distinctive ethnic communities. By presenting a wealth of newly available or previously ignored archival evidence, she interrogates and re-balances the political history of Britain's response to New Commonwealth immigration. Contagious Communities uses a set of linked case-studies to map the persistence of 'race' in British culture and medicine alike; the limits of belonging in a multi-ethnic welfare state; and the emergence of new and resolutely 'unimagined' communities of patients, researchers, clinicians, policy-makers, and citizens within the medical state and its global contact zones.
Contagious Communities
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Author : Roberta E. Bivins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Contagious Communities written by Roberta E. Bivins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Great Britain categories.
'Contagious Communities' casts new light on a period only now attracting significant historical interest. It draws attention to the importance - but also the limitations - of medical knowledge, approaches and professionals in mediating post-war British responses to race, ethnicity, and the emergence of new and distinctive ethnic communities. By presenting a wealth of newly available or previously ignored archival evidence, it interrogates and re-balances the political history of Britain's response to New Commonwealth immigration.
Contagious Community
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Serendipity House
Release Date : 2005-01-01
Contagious Community written by and has been published by Serendipity House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-01 with Church group work categories.
Contagious Communities
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Author : Roberta Bivins
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2015-09-24
Contagious Communities written by Roberta Bivins and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-24 with History categories.
It was only a coincidence that the NHS and the Empire Windrush (a ship carrying 492 migrants from Britain's West Indian colonies) arrived together. On 22 June 1948, as the ship's passengers disembarked, frantic preparations were already underway for 5 July, the Appointed Day when the nation's new National Health Service would first open its doors. The relationship between immigration and the NHS rapidly attained - and has enduringly retained - notable political and cultural significance. Both the Appointed Day and the post-war arrival of colonial and Commonwealth immigrants heralded transformative change. Together, they reshaped daily life in Britain and notions of 'Britishness' alike. Yet the reciprocal impacts of post-war immigration and medicine in post-war Britain have yet to be explored. Contagious Communities casts new light on a period which is beginning to attract significant historical interest. Roberta Bivins draws attention to the importance - but also the limitations - of medical knowledge, approaches, and professionals in mediating post-war British responses to race, ethnicity, and the emergence of new and distinctive ethnic communities. By presenting a wealth of newly available or previously ignored archival evidence, she interrogates and re-balances the political history of Britain's response to New Commonwealth immigration. Contagious Communities uses a set of linked case-studies to map the persistence of 'race' in British culture and medicine alike; the limits of belonging in a multi-ethnic welfare state; and the emergence of new and resolutely 'unimagined' communities of patients, researchers, clinicians, policy-makers, and citizens within the medical state and its global contact zones.
Contagious Communities
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Author : Jennifer Lynn MacLure
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Contagious Communities written by Jennifer Lynn MacLure and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
"Contagious Communities" explores three discourses that have all been called disciplinary and repressive: nineteenth-century public health, political economy, and the Victorian novel. Recent scholars in literary studies, medical history, and the philosophy of science have associated all three with the punitive enforcement of separable, individualized bodies. These readings emphasize how sanitary reformers pushed domestic privacy onto working class bodies; how medical men decried what they saw as a pathological excess of bodily contact; how political economists reified private property ownership; and how the novel trained a mass readership in the social, domestic, and subjective habits of this increasingly privatized, sanitized, and disembodied modern life. My project challenges this conclusion. I argue that Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Harriet Martineau engage with the same central questions as public health and political economy- Who counts as "one of us"? Who deserves to live in our nation and, more fundamentally, who deserves to live? Do prosperous citizens have an ethical responsibility to sacrifice resources or put themselves at risk in order to ensure the lives of others?-but do so in ways that change the terms of the conversation. By depicting contact between embodied characters as well as the materials, affects, and language that circulate around those embodied interactions, these novelists unsettle several basic premises of dominant narratives of political economy and public health: that the ideal citizen ought to be bounded and self-contained, that contagion is necessarily bad, that self-interest is productive and appropriate, and finally, that the maximization of the overall vitality or "life" of the social body is and should be more important than all other concerns. In the medium of fiction, these novelists imagine the alternative worlds that might proceed from different premises. As I read it, the Victorian realist novel models the potential of embodied contact to disrupt and transform larger social and economic structures. Far from discouraging contact between the vulnerable, leaky, often contagious bodies of Victorian individuals, these novels demonstrate the power of such contact to produce healthier and more inclusive communities.
Contagious
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Author : Priscilla Wald
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2008-01-09
Contagious written by Priscilla Wald and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
DIVShows how narratives of contagion structure communities of belonging and how the lessons of these narratives are incorporated into sociological theories of cultural transmission and community formation./div
Contagion Of Violence
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Author : National Research Council
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 2013-03-06
Contagion Of Violence written by National Research Council and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-06 with Medical categories.
The past 25 years have seen a major paradigm shift in the field of violence prevention, from the assumption that violence is inevitable to the recognition that violence is preventable. Part of this shift has occurred in thinking about why violence occurs, and where intervention points might lie. In exploring the occurrence of violence, researchers have recognized the tendency for violent acts to cluster, to spread from place to place, and to mutate from one type to another. Furthermore, violent acts are often preceded or followed by other violent acts. In the field of public health, such a process has also been seen in the infectious disease model, in which an agent or vector initiates a specific biological pathway leading to symptoms of disease and infectivity. The agent transmits from individual to individual, and levels of the disease in the population above the baseline constitute an epidemic. Although violence does not have a readily observable biological agent as an initiator, it can follow similar epidemiological pathways. On April 30-May 1, 2012, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Forum on Global Violence Prevention convened a workshop to explore the contagious nature of violence. Part of the Forum's mandate is to engage in multisectoral, multidirectional dialogue that explores crosscutting, evidence-based approaches to violence prevention, and the Forum has convened four workshops to this point exploring various elements of violence prevention. The workshops are designed to examine such approaches from multiple perspectives and at multiple levels of society. In particular, the workshop on the contagion of violence focused on exploring the epidemiology of the contagion, describing possible processes and mechanisms by which violence is transmitted, examining how contextual factors mitigate or exacerbate the issue. Contagion of Violence: Workshop Summary covers the major topics that arose during the 2-day workshop. It is organized by important elements of the infectious disease model so as to present the contagion of violence in a larger context and in a more compelling and comprehensive way.
Epidemic Urbanism
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Author : Mohammad Gharipour
language : en
Publisher: Intellect (UK)
Release Date : 2021-12-17
Epidemic Urbanism written by Mohammad Gharipour and has been published by Intellect (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-17 with categories.
Thirty-six interdisciplinary essays analyze the mutual relationship between historical epidemics and the built environment. Epidemic illnesses--not only a product of biology, but also social and cultural phenomena--are as old as cities themselves. The outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019 brought the effects of epidemic illness on urban life into sharp focus, exposing the vulnerabilities of the societies it ravages as much as the bodies it infects. How might insights from the outbreak and responses to previous urban epidemics inform our understanding of the current world? With these questions in mind, Epidemic Urbanism gathers scholarship from a range of disciplines--including history, public health, sociology, anthropology, and medicine--to present historical case studies from across the globe, each demonstrating how cities are not just the primary place of exposure and quarantine, but also the site and instrument of intervention. They also demonstrate how epidemic illnesses, and responses to them, exploit and amplify social inequality in the communities they touch. Illustrated with more than 150 historical images, the essays illuminate the profound, complex ways epidemics have shaped the world around us and convey this information in a way that meaningfully engages a public readership.
Community Health
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Author : A. Y. Levy
language : iw
Publisher:
Release Date : 1935
Community Health written by A. Y. Levy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1935 with categories.
Configuring Contagion
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Author : Lotte Meinert
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2022-02-11
Configuring Contagion written by Lotte Meinert and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-11 with Social Science categories.
Expanding our understanding of contagion beyond the typical notions of infection and pandemics, this book widens the field to include the concept of biosocial epidemics. The chapters propose varied and detailed answers to questions about epidemics and their contagious potential for specific infections and non-infectious conditions. Together they explore how inseparable social and biological processes configure co-existing influences, which create epidemics, and in doing so stress the role of social inequality in these processes. The authors compellingly show that epidemics do not spread evenly in populations or through simple coincidental biological contagion: they are biosocially structured and selective, and happen under specific economic, political and environmental conditions. This volume illustrates that an understanding of biosocial factors is vital for ensuring effective strategies for the containment of epidemics.