Marketing health : smoking and the discourse of public health in Britain, 1945-2000 /
The author examines the way in which public health policy has changed and developed since the Second World War. It explains how public health began to focus on 'lifestyle' diseases, and looks at the debates which took place along the way, using smoking as a model.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The author examines the way in which public health policy has changed and developed since the Second World War. It explains how public health began to focus on 'lifestyle' diseases, and looks at the debates which took place along the way, using smoking as a model. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 338 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-309) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199260300 0199260303 |