Every month the Placing the Public in Public Health research team meet to discuss a piece of reading and how it relates to our project themes. We’ve found this a particularly useful way to advance our thinking around broad concepts such as the ‘public’.
This month we’re reading:
- Matt Cook, ”Archives of Feeling’: the AIDS crisis in Britain, 1987′, History Workshop Journal, 83 (2017)
We have read:
- Newman, Janet, and John Clarke, Publics, Politics and Power: Remaking the Public in Public Services (London: Sage, 2009)
- Petersen, Alan, and Deborah Lupton, The New Public Health: Health and Self in the Age of Risk (London: Sage Publications, 1996)
- Warner, Michael, ‘Publics and Counterpublics’, Public Culture, 14 (2002), 49–90 <https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-14-1-49>
- Cantor, David, ‘Representing “the Public”: Medicine, Charity and the Public Sphere in Twentieth Century Britain’, in Medicine, Health and the Public Sphere in Britain: 1600-2000, ed. by Sturdy, Steve (London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 145–68
- Goldstein, Diane, Once Upon a Virus: AIDS Legends and Vernacular Risk Perception (Utah State University Press, 2004) <http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs/32>
- Lawrence, Jon, ‘Class, “Affluence” and the Study of Everyday Life in Britain, C. 1930–64’, Cultural and Social History, 10 (2013), 273–99 <https://doi.org/10.2752/147800413X13591373275411>
- Davis, Angela, ‘A Critical Perspective on British Social Surveys and Community Studies and Their Accounts of Married Life c.1945–70’, Cultural and Social History, 6 (2009), 47–64 <https://doi.org/10.2752/147800409X377901>
- Waters, Chris, ‘The Homosexual as a Social Being in Britain, 1945–1968’, The Journal of British Studies, 51 (2012), 685–710
- Bivins, Roberta E, Contagious Communities: Medicine, Migration, and the NHS in Post-War Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015)
- Bingham, Adrian, ‘Ignoring the First Draft of History?’, Media History, 18 (2012), 311–26 <https://doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2012.721644>
- Parkhurst, Justin, The Politics of Evidence (Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2017) <http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315675008>
- Toon, Elizabeth, ‘“Cancer as the General Population Knows It”: Knowledge, Fear, and Lay Education in 1950s Britain’, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 81 (2007), 116–38 <https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2007.0013>
- Brooke, Stephen, ‘Space, Emotions and the Everyday: The Affective Ecology of 1980s London’, Twentieth Century British History, 2016, hww055 <https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hww055>
- Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Florence, ‘Neoliberalism and Morality in the Making of Thatcherite Social Policy’, The Historical Journal, 55 (2012), 497-520 <https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X12000118>
- Mirowski, Philip, ‘The Political Movement that Dared not Speak its own Name: The Neoliberal Thought Collective Under Erasure’, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Working Paper 23 (2014)
- Talbot, Colin, ‘The Myth of Neoliberalism’, The Public Investigator, 31 August 2016 <https://colinrtalbot.wordpress.com/2016/08/31/the-myth-of-neoliberalism/>
- Sheard, Sally, ‘Quacks and Clerks: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Structure and Function of the British Medical Civil Service’, Social Policy & Administration, 44 (2010), 193-207 <http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9515.2009.00708.x>
- King, Laura, ‘Future Citizens: Cultural and Political Conceptions of Children in Britain, 1930s – 1950s’, Twentieth Century British History, 27:3 (2016 ), 389-411 <doi:10.1093/tcbh/hww025>
- Nicole Eustace, Eugenia Lean, Julie Livingston, Jan Plamper, William M. Reddy, and Barbara H. Rosenwein, ‘AHR Conversation: The Historical Study of Emotions’, The American Historical Review, 117:5 (2012), 1487-1531
- Pemberton, Neil, ‘The Burnley Dog War: The Politics of Dog-Walking and the Battle over Public Parks in Post-Industrial Britain’, Twentieth Century British History, 28:2 (2017), 239-267
- Hand, Jane, ‘Marketing Health Education: Advertising Margarine and Visualising Health in Britain from 1964 – c.2000’, Contemporary British History, 11 April 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2017.1305898