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category: Medical
published: May 2018
ISBN:9780774837187
publisher: UBC Press

Be Wise! Be Healthy!

Morality and Citizenship in Canadian Public Health Campaigns

by Catherine Carstairs; Bethany Philpott & Sara Wilmshurst

tagged: history, post-confederation (1867-)
Description

Lose weight. Quit smoking. Exercise. For over a century, public health campaigns have encouraged Canadians to adopt healthy habits in order to prolong lives, cost the state less, and produce more efficient workers. Be Wise! Be Healthy! explores the history of public health from the 1920s to the 1970s and its emphasis on health as a responsibility of citizenship. But public health campaigns can stigmatize marginalized populations by implying that poor health is due to inadequate self-care, despite clear links between health and external factors such as poverty. This clear-eyed study demonstrates that while we may well celebrate the successes of public health campaigns, they are not without controversy.

About the Authors

Catherine Carstairs is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Guelph.


Catherine Carstairs is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Guelph.


Catherine Carstairs is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Guelph.

Contributor Notes

Catherine Carstairs is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Guelph. Her publications include Jailed for Possession: Illegal Drug Use, Regulation, and Power in Canada, 1920–1961 and Feminist History in Canada: New Essays on Women, Gender, Work, and Nation, edited with Nancy Janovicek.

 

Bethany Philpott is a family medicine resident at Queen’s University, Belleville-Quinte.

 

Sara Wilmshurst’s research on the Health League of Canada sparked her interest in nonprofit organizations, and she now works in fundraising.

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