Working-Class English Health Culture 1880-1970

1880-1970 年英国工人阶级健康文化

• 批准号: 6948883
• 负责人: LUCINDA M BEIER
• 金额: $ 6.13万
• 依托单位: ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-30 至 2006-09-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6948883
• 关键词: Working; Class; English; Health; Culture

DESCRIPTION: The goal of this project is to produce a book that explores working-class health culture and experience of public health and medical services in the Lancashire (England) communities Barrow, Lancaster, and Preston between about 1880 and 1970. Based primarily on 250 oral history interviews of working-class residents born between 1872 and 1958 and annual reports of the Medical Officers of Health for these communities, this book considers gender, class, political, economic, and cultural aspects of the mid-twentieth-century shift in responsibility for health, illness, birth, and death from the informal domestic and neighborhood sphere to the purview of professional institutionally-based authorities. Located within the context of national concern about working-class mortality, fitness, and living conditions, the book will document the processes through which working-class people abandoned traditional ways of dealing with ill health and accepted official health culture and medical provision. These processes included surveillance, education, intervention, and enforcement activities of public health authorities; changes in working-class health culture resulting from contact with official health care, participation in state education, and exposure to the mass media; and implementation of national policies that expanded health services and reduced barriers to working-class use of those services. This monograph will be the only available historical work to focus on twentieth-century working-class experience of health and illness in specific English communities, thus expanding the perspective and understanding of medical historians who have generally focused on the development of biomedical theories and professional and institutional medicine in national contexts. Because of its foundation in oral evidence, it will enhance historical understanding of consumers' experience of health policy and health care--phenomena and services that are usually studied from the perspectives of policy-makers and care-givers. Funding is required to support remaining research and composition of a draft manuscript.

说明： 这个项目的目标是出版一本书，探索大约1880年至1970年间兰开夏郡(英格兰)巴罗、兰开斯特和普雷斯顿社区的工人阶级健康文化和公共卫生和医疗服务的经验。这本书主要基于对出生于1872年至1958年之间的工人阶级居民的250次口述历史采访和这些社区的医疗卫生官员的年度报告，这本书考虑了20世纪中期卫生、疾病、出生和死亡的责任从非正式的家庭和社区领域转移到专业的体制当局的范围的性别、阶级、政治、经济和文化方面。这本书位于国家对工人阶级死亡率、健康状况和生活条件的关注的背景下，将记录工人阶级放弃处理健康问题的传统方法并接受官方健康文化和医疗供应的过程。这些进程包括公共卫生当局的监测、教育、干预和执法活动；因接触官方保健、参加国家教育和接触大众媒体而改变工人阶级的卫生文化；以及执行扩大卫生服务和减少工人阶级使用这些服务的障碍的国家政策。这本专著将是唯一一部关注20世纪英国特定社区工人阶级健康和疾病经验的历史著作，从而扩大了医学史学家的视角和理解，他们通常专注于生物医学理论的发展以及国家背景下的专业和机构医学。由于其以口头证据为基础，它将加强对消费者对健康政策和医疗保健--通常从政策制定者和护理人员的角度研究的现象和服务--的历史理解。需要资金来支持剩余的研究和手稿草稿的撰写。