Jennifer Lisa Koslow, Exhibiting Health

Given the current health crisis situation facing the world today, attention to how health information is transmitted to the public is a critical issue. Studies by historians, social scientists and public health professionals that address the mechanisms, implementations and efficacy of methods used for transmitting health information, deserve immediate consideration. Jennifer Lisa Koslow’s new book, Exhibiting Health Public Health Displays in the Progressive Era, contributes to this growing literature in a highly focused account in the early twentieth century when health exhibitions and displays were considered essential tools of popular visual education for connecting the public with issues of their health. Koslow’s book is structured into four chapters the first of which surveys reviews of exhibition events in Charities and The Commons, the key journal of progressive reformers between 1905 and 1928. The close reading of these articles affords a ‘critical lens through which to see how healthcare

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