PUBH 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Polio Vaccine, American Cancer Society, Food Safety
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What research and programmatic efforts get funded. Who benefits from or loses as result of policy decisions. Positive or negative biases associated with responsibility for disease. Ex: vernial diseases, blaming women for stds, african americans as disease spreaders. Attributions of responsibility can derive from variety of sources. Manifests in assignment of blame for disease. May determine how individuals and societies respond to disease states. Ancient egyptian papyri dating from 1600 bce. Disease described as there is no treatment . Hippocrates described cancerous tumors as resembling a crab. 1913: american society for the control of cancer founded to change public perception of cancer. Elsie mead and marjorie illig help to establish the women"s field army to promote cancer detection awareness. Put a child"s face as token as cancer: able to raise enough funds to open a hospital. 1938: president of the birth control federation of america.
