Health Education and Its (Social) Scientization in the 1950s and 1960s

Sammer, Christian

doi:10.1007/s00048-018-00203-6

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“…11 Kury 2012;Rothstein 2003. 12 Madarász-Lebenhagen 2013Linek 2016;Sammer 2015, 2019. 13 Ruchatz 2005Meyen 2003 history of media discourses.…”

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“Now even Television is Promoting Health?” On the Intertwined History of Television and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in the German Democratic Republic, 1950s–1970s

Offermann¹

2019

GES

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This paper argues that the historical trajectories of television and cardiovascular disease prevention in the German Democratic Republic are interlocking. These diseases were largely understood as caused by an unhealthy modern lifestyle. Healthcare experts were convinced that health education was an effective strategy to persuade the population to follow a healthy lifestyle. With its rise as a new mass medium, health educators increasingly relied on television as a means to put their message across. Yet the new medium itself was a target of health education measures as excessive TV consumption was considered a potential threat to cardiovascular health. This article deals with the history of health-related problematizations of TV consumption. In the 1950s and early 1960s, during an animated discourse on the strain of a modern lifestyle television was considered a potential source of overstimulation of the nervous system. As this article argues, this interpretation was undermined by a modified concept of TV consumption within the discourse of empirical audience research.

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“…11 Kury 2012;Rothstein 2003. 12 Madarász-Lebenhagen 2013Linek 2016;Sammer 2015, 2019. 13 Ruchatz 2005Meyen 2003 history of media discourses.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Now even Television is Promoting Health?” On the Intertwined History of Television and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in the German Democratic Republic, 1950s–1970s

Offermann¹

2019

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Investigation of WZ Sge-type Dwarf Nova ASASSN-19oc: Optical Spectroscopy and Multicolor Light Curve Analysis

Krushevska,

Shugarov,

Ochner

et al. 2024

Res. Astron. Astrophys.

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In this study, we present an investigation of the newly discovered dwarf nova ASASSN-19oc during its superoutburst on June 2, 2019. We carried out detailed UBVRcIc - photometric observations and also obtained a spectrum on day 7 of the outburst, which shows the presence of hydrogen absorption lines commonly found in dwarf novae outbursts. Analysis of photometric data reveals the occurrence of early superhumps in the initial days of observations, followed by ordinary and late superhumps. We have accurately calculated the period of the ordinary superhumps as Pord = 0.05681(10) days and determined the periods at different stages, as well as the rate of change of the superhumps period (Pdot = dP/P = 8.1 × 10-5). Additionally, we have derived the mass ratio of the components (q = 0.09), estimated the color temperature during the outburst as ~11000 K, the distance to the system (d = 560 pc) and absolute magnitude of the system in outburst (Mv = 5.3). We have shown that outbursts of this star are very rare: based on brightness measurements on 600 archival photographic plates, we found only one outburst that occurred in 1984. This fact, as well as the properties listed above, convincingly show that the variable ASASSN-19oc is a dwarf nova of WZ Sge type.

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1991T-like Supernovae*

Phillips,

Ashall,

Brown

et al. 2024

ApJS

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Understanding the nature of the luminous 1991T-like supernovae (SNe) is of great importance to SN cosmology as they are likely to have been more common in the early Universe. In this paper, we explore the observational properties of 1991T-like SNe to study their relationship to other luminous, slow-declining Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). From the spectroscopic and photometric criteria defined in Phillips et al., we identify 17 1991T-like SNe from the literature. Combining these objects with 10 1991T-like SNe from the Carnegie Supernova Project-II, the spectra, light curves, and colors of these events, along with their host galaxy properties, are examined in detail. We conclude that 1991T-like SNe are closely related in essentially all of their UV, optical, and near-infrared properties—as well as their host galaxy parameters—to the slow-declining subset of Branch core-normal SNe and to the intermediate 1999aa-like events, forming a continuum of luminous SNe Ia. The overriding difference between these three subgroups appears to be the extent to which 56Ni mixes into the ejecta, producing the premaximum spectra dominated by Fe iii absorption, the broader UV light curves, and the higher luminosities that characterize the 1991T-like events. Nevertheless, the association of 1991T-like SNe with the rare Type Ia circumstellar material SNe would seem to run counter to this hypothesis, in which case 1991T-like events may form a separate subclass of SNe Ia, possibly arising from single-degenerate progenitor systems.

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Health Education and Its (Social) Scientization in the 1950s and 1960s

Cited by 3 publications

References 56 publications

“Now even Television is Promoting Health?” On the Intertwined History of Television and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in the German Democratic Republic, 1950s–1970s

“Now even Television is Promoting Health?” On the Intertwined History of Television and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in the German Democratic Republic, 1950s–1970s

Investigation of WZ Sge-type Dwarf Nova ASASSN-19oc: Optical Spectroscopy and Multicolor Light Curve Analysis

1991T-like Supernovae*

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