Alex Mold is Associate Professor in History at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Peder Clark is Research Fellow in History at the University of Strathclyde
Hannah J. Elizabeth is Research Fellow in History at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Introduction: publics and their health - historical problems and perspectives - Alex Mold, Peder Clark and Hannah J. Elizabeth
1 'Democracy trains its microscope' on public health: intergovernmental relations, competing publics and negotiations at the grassroots - Jennifer Gunn
2 'Dumping grounds for... human waste': containing problem populations in post-war British public health policy, 1945-74 - Michael Lambert
3 Socialism, health and the politics of identity: conversations from East Germany's AIDS crisis - Johanna Folland
4 Forgoing fat: food choice, disease prevention and the role of the food industry in health promotion in England, 1980-92 - Jane Hand
5 At the borders of the public: immigrant and migrant publics and the right to health - Beatrix Hoffman
6 The emergence of violence as a public health problem in Argentina - Martin Hernan Di Marco
Afterword: from Asiatic cholera to COVID-19 - the many publics of modern public health - Tom Crook
Index