Elizabeth Fee (1946–2018)

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ID11019451
AuthorsAnne-Emanuelle Birn (0000-0002-0314-5913, Anne-Emanuelle Birn is professor of critical development studies and of social and behavioral health sciences at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. Theodore M. Brown is professor emeritus of history and public health sciences at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.), Terry M Brown (0009-0003-9101-1302, Public Health Ontario), Theodore M Brown (Anne-Emanuelle Birn is professor of critical development studies and of social and behavioral health sciences at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. Theodore M. Brown is professor emeritus of history and public health sciences at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.)
Year2019
Volume109
Issue6
Pages867-869
Publication date2019-06-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2019.305065
PMID30998404
OpenAlexW2939833225
LanguageEN
References cited3

Elizabeth Fee was a remarkable and influential public health historian, whose personal and professional trajectories led her to speak truth to and about power in public health, past and present. Born in Northern Ireland in 1946 to Irish–Methodist missionary parents, Liz’s childhood brought her into contact with peoples and struggles across the globe. At just five weeks of age, she was whisked away by her parents to civil war–era China, where she lost hearing in one ear from an untreated bout with scarlet fever. In midchildhood, she attended school in Malaysia, after which her family returned to Belfast. There, she came of age amid festering political and religious violence, learning firsthand that history is told and retold by protagonists and witnesses, oppressors and oppressed. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print April 18, 2019: e1–e4. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2019.305065)

China · Globe · Irish · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Public health · Sociology · Gender Studies · Global Health and Surgery · Global Maternal and Child Health · History · Law · Medicine · Public Health Policies and Education

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