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Wonder if better understanding of history of medicine might make people a little more cautious about amount of unchecked power given over to PH authorities?
Good article from Science Museum
Good article from Science Museum
"Sometimes public health regulations were as much about controlling poor and minority populations as they were about controlling disease and improving health" https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/medicine/health-nation
Also in this paper:
"we are concerned with the propensity for schools to promote particular messages about health, especially those that encourage body surveillance and control... certain forms of health education can be seen as a form of health fascism" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09581596.2013.836590?journalCode=ccph20
"we are concerned with the propensity for schools to promote particular messages about health, especially those that encourage body surveillance and control... certain forms of health education can be seen as a form of health fascism" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09581596.2013.836590?journalCode=ccph20
And here:
Health systems "harnessing the power of the state in the interests of the Volk or pueblo as a whole, rather than the priorities of individual patients and doctors" http://www.bbk.ac.uk/reluctantinternationalists/blog/fascist-international-health/
Health systems "harnessing the power of the state in the interests of the Volk or pueblo as a whole, rather than the priorities of individual patients and doctors" http://www.bbk.ac.uk/reluctantinternationalists/blog/fascist-international-health/
In late 19th century England, dominant ideas of degeneration considered working class people to be sickly and a "threat to the nation" and public health attempted to reduce birth rates in particular groups for the good of the empire
In fascist Europe, Jews and queer people were seen as sickly and ill, and a threat to the health of Europe -- and arguments for persecution of Jews and queers was made in terms of public health
Of course PH is now acting in a different context, to a different threat, with different consequences
However we *must* be mindful of the potential of considering humans primarily as threats to health, and not as individuals with needs as desires, of leading us to v dark places
However we *must* be mindful of the potential of considering humans primarily as threats to health, and not as individuals with needs as desires, of leading us to v dark places
*needs and desires
