Marketing Health: Smoking and the Discourse of Public Health in Britain, 1945-2000

by Virginia Berridge

The post war history of public health and the role of smoking within that history epitomises the tensions which surround taking health to the public. Public health history has largely concentrated on the nineteenth century sanitary period or on the years before the Second World War, often focussing on the environmental advances, or on the professional and occupational history of public health as an activity. This book has a different focus: it deals...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199260303
• ISBN13: 9780199260300
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.8"