THE CHOLERA YEARS. THE UNITED STATES IN 1832, 1849 and 1866

Rosen, George

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“…First, unlike traditional theories of epidemics (Rosenberg, 1992(Rosenberg, , 1962, in post-modern epidemics, these two phases of chaos and containment are not diachronous but simultaneous. 37 They reinforce each other, often through their representation in the media.…”

Section: Chaos and Containmentmentioning

confidence: 90%

“…27 Chaos is necessarily connected to the development of methods to contain the obesity epidemic. Earlier theorists of epidemics like Rosenberg (1962Rosenberg ( , 1992 suggest a progression from general chaos to containment in the course of an epidemic, yet in the obesity epidemic these two "stages" reinforce rather than succeed each other. A brief look at media characterizations of two ideal typical forms of containment, bariatric surgery and behavior modification shows how chaos and containment work together.…”

Section: Chaos and Containmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Epidemics are rarely seen solely in terms of naturally spread contagion, but also reflect a concern with the state of the social world (Rosenberg, 1962). The focus on culture in these articles, and its presumed opposition to nature represents the third discursive pairing central to this epidemic.…”

Section: Nature and Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

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All the News that’s Fat to Print: The American “Obesity Epidemic” and the Media

2006

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In the last twenty years scientific, medical, and public health interest in obesity has skyrocketed. Increasingly the term "epidemic" is being used in the media, medical journals, and public health policy literature to describe the current prevalence of fatness in the U.S. Using social scientific literature on epidemics, social problems, and feminist theories of the body, this paper traces the historical emergence of the "obesity epidemic" through an analysis of 751 articles on obesity published in The New York Times between 1990 and 2001. Through the identification and analysis of three discursive pairings I argue that the "obesity epidemic" is a part of a new breed of what I call "post-modern epidemics," epidemics in which unevenly medicalized phenomena lacking a clear pathological basis get cast in the language and moral panic of "traditional" epidemics. I show how this moral panic together with the location of the problem within the individual precludes a more macro level approach to health and health care delivery at a time when health care services are being dismantled or severely cut back.

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Section: Chaos and Containmentmentioning

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Section: Chaos and Containmentmentioning

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“…humidity, static electricity in the air, etc. ), or fermentation theories inspired by chemistry (Rosenberg 1987). These theories, like the contagionist variety, were plagued by ambiguity and incommensurability.…”

Section: Choleric Confusionmentioning

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Organization Formation as Epistemic Practice: The Early Epistemological Function of the American Medical Association

Whooley

2010

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This research explores how social actors adjudicate knowledge claims within intellectual environments where epistemic standards are contested. Through the case study of 19th century debates over cholera in the United States, I examine the strategies deployed by orthodox and homeopathic physicians in the struggle over medical knowledge during this "epistemic contest." The 1832 cholera epidemic ushered in a crisis for orthodox medicine, as epistemological standards for adjudicating medical knowledge claims became challenged and ill-defined. Failing to muster an effective cultural response to homeopathy, orthodoxy adopted an organizational strategy, forming the American Medical Association and offering professional membership as a proxy indicator of legitimate knowledge. The AMA created an organizational/intellectual space insulated from homeopathy, which translated into a concerted campaign to exclude homeopaths from government institutions and affected the nature of orthodox knowledge on cholera. This case reveals that epistemic contests are not waged by cultural means only; organizational practices form an integral part of actors' repertoires in adjudicating epistemological claims in practice.

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“…In short, the profession of medicine was in too chaotic a state in the United States to influence public policies. 74 Simultaneous to the incohesiveness of the medical profession as a group, there also existed uncertainties about the nature of mental and physical illness because of persistent traditional beliefs about the human body. Physicians were not in a well-organized position which would allow the profession to impose a medical model or disease model on those with behavioral disorders.…”

Section: The Medical Profession In the Nineteenth Centurymentioning

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Social control doctrines of mental illness and the medical profession in nineteenth-century America

Luchins

1993

J. Hist. Behav. Sci.

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Social control doctrines of mental disorders have influenced a generation of psychologists and have shaped attitudes and discussions about how to treat the mentally ill. In light of the failure of deinstitutionalization as a public policy and the contemporary concern with the medical or biological bases of psychiatric disorders, this paper re‐examines social control doctrines. Reviewing mid‐nineteenth century statistical accounts, the author challenges claims of social control theorists and shows that in recent years some former social control advocates and revisionists have “recanted” and criticized their earlier use of the concept of social control, particularly the characterization of the asylum as a “total institution”.

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THE CHOLERA YEARS. THE UNITED STATES IN 1832, 1849 and 1866

Cited by 41 publications

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All the News that’s Fat to Print: The American “Obesity Epidemic” and the Media

All the News that’s Fat to Print: The American “Obesity Epidemic” and the Media

Organization Formation as Epistemic Practice: The Early Epistemological Function of the American Medical Association

Social control doctrines of mental illness and the medical profession in nineteenth-century America

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