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Tele(visualising) Health: TV, Public Health, its Enthusiasts and its Publics

From February 27, 2019 until March 1, 2019
Londres - UK

We are very pleased to circulate the programme for the upcoming ERC BodyCapital & London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) International Conference,

PROGRAMME :
http://bodycapital.unistra.fr/fileadmin/uploads/websites/body-capital/Agenda/Tele_visualising__health_Programme_.pdf

Participation is open and free, although spaces are limited, please register here.

From early on, public health professionals were enthusiastic about how television and mass advertising could reach out with new messages about lifestyle and risk; it symbolised the post war optimism about new directions in public health. But it could also act as a contributory factor to those new public health problems. We look to examine the relationship between TV and public health in the 20th century.


Keynote speakers:

  • Jeremy A. Greene (Johns Hopkins University)
  • Christina von Hodenberg (QMUL)
  • Elizabeth Toon (University of Manchester)

The conference is organized by the ERC funded research group The healthy self as body capital: individuals, market-based societies and body politics in visual twentieth century Europe (BodyCapital) and the Centre for History in Public Health London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).