Marketing Health
Smoking and the Discourse of Public Health in Britain, 1945-2000. By Virginia Berridge
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12239241 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Hilton (0000-0002-6792-2208, University of Birmingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 242-243 |
| Publication date | 2007-12-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Twentieth Century British History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0955-2359 • E-ISSN: 1477-4674 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/tcbh/hwn008 |
| OpenAlex | W2116817172 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In Marketing Health Virginia Berridge has provided a thoroughgoing, if densely written, account of smoking and public health since the Second World War. In doing so, she has deliberately eschewed the opportunity to explore a number of themes that have attracted various analysts to the subject: of the role of smoking in British culture; of the intrigues of the tobacco industry; of the apparent hypocrisy of the government arising from the competing demands of the Treasury and the Ministry of Health; or of the fervour that has marked some of the more extreme pronouncements of the anti-smoking movement. Instead, she has taken a more impartial line and has rooted her narrative within the changing nature of public health policy. Some might argue that the book is therefore something of a missed opportunity, but as Berridge demonstrates, the history of smoking and health in post-war Britain is inseparable from the history of public health
Art · Christian ministry · Government (linguistics · Hypocrisy · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Public health · Sociology · History of Science and Medicine · Medicine · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |