Cultures of Oral Health (eBook, ePUB)

Discourses, Practices and Theory
Redaktion: Jones, Claire L.; Gibson, Barry J.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Oral health is integral to well-being and quality of life. This important edited volume brings together leading scholars to address global oral health and the multiple ways in which theory, practice and discourse have shaped it in the modern period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000604351
• Artikelnr.: 64078437

Autorenporträt

Claire L. Jones is Senior Lecturer in the History of Medicine at the University of Kent, UK Barry J. Gibson is Professor in Medical Sociology in the University of Sheffield's School of Clinical Dentistry, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Oral health: an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary approach?
Part I: Professionalism
ethics and inequalities
2. Do dentists' views on professionalism include moral inclusiveness?
3. Designing healthy smiles
4. Feminism
pipelines and gender myths: interrogating gender equality and inclusion in dentistry
Part II: Cultural representations of the mouth and teeth
5. Toothy tales: dentures in the writings of H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling
6. Metaphors in the mouth: on dental fitness and iatronormativity
7. 'DO AS YOUR DENTIST TELLS YOU': mouthwash advertising in interwar America
8. Science
beauty and health: the explosion of toothpaste advertising in interwar America
Part III: The patient's perspective
9. Tommy's teeth: trench mouth
dentures and dental health among British army recruits in World War One
10. The mouth as the gateway to the leaky body: the visibility of internal bleeding in the mouths of people with haemophilia
11. 'Having work done': the teeth
mouth and oral health as a body project
Part IV: State
surveillance and social justice
12. 'Enlightened employers of labour'? Oral health in the British factory
1890-1950
13. The state of tooth decay: dental knowledge
medical policy and fluoridation in Sweden
1952-62
14. The cultural politics of dental humanitarianism