[Commlist] CfP: Tele(visualising) health. A history of television and health

Special issue #18 of VIEW journal of European Television History and Culture

We are presently accepting propositions for a special issue of VIEW 
Journal <https://www.viewjournal.eu> dedicated to the history of 
television and health. VIEW Journal of European Television History and 
Culture is the first peer-reviewed, multimedia and open access e-journal 
in the field of European television history and culture. The special 
issue follows the thematic lines of the Tele(visualising) Health 
conference <http://Tele(visualising) Health conference> on the history 
of TV, public health, its enthusiasts and its publics. The special issue 
will include contributions from the authors who presented at the 
conference but is open to other authors who wish to explore these topics 
in writing.

Televisions began to appear in homes in large numbers of the public in 
Europe and North America after World War II. This coincided with a 
period in which ideas about the public’s health, the problems that it 
faced and the solutions that could be offered, were changing. Threats 
posed by infectious diseases were receding, only to be replaced by 
chronic conditions linked to lifestyle and individual behaviour. Public 
health professionals were enthusiastic about how this new technology and 
mass advertising could reach out to individuals in the population with a 
new message about lifestyle and health risk. Television symbolised the 
post-war optimism about new directions in public health

At the same time, television acted as a contributing factor to new 
public health problems. Watching TV was part of a shift towards more 
sedentary lifestyles, and also a vehicle through which products that 
were damaging to health - alcohol, cigarettes and unhealthy food - could 
be advertised to the public. Population health problems could be 
worsened by TV viewing. How should we understand the relationship 
between TV and public health?  What are the key changes and continuities 
over time and place? How does thinking about the relationship between 
public health and TV change our understanding of both?

In this special issue, we seek to explore questions such as:

  * How did the enthusiasm develop for TV within public health?
  * How were shifts in public health, problems, policies and practices
    represented on TV?
  * How was TV used to improve or hinder public health?
  * What aspects of public health were represented on TV, and what were 
not?
  * How did the public respond to health messages on TV?
  * What were the perceived limitations of TV as a mass medium for
    public health?
  * In what way was TV different from other forms of mass media in
    relation to public health?
  * How were institutions concerned with the public’s health present
    –and staged –on TV broadcasts?

This special issue aims to bring together scholars from different fields 
(such as, but not limited to, history, history of science, history of 
medicine, communication, media and film studies, television studies) 
working on the history of television in Great Britain, France and 
Germany (West and East) (the focus of the ERC BodyCapital project 
<http://bodycapital.unistra.fr>), but also other European countries, 
North and South America, Russia, Asia or other countries and areas. 
Papers might focus on one national, regional or even local framework. 
Considering the history of health-related  (audio-)  visuals as a  
history of transfer, as entangled history or with a comparative 
perspective are welcome. The co-editors welcome contributions with a  
strong historical impetus from all social and cultural sciences.

Please consult the author guidelines, notably with regard to format, 
length and availability of films/programmes, before making your proposal.

For further information or questions about the issue, please contact its 
co-editors: Tricia Close-Koenig <tkoenig [at] unistra [dot] fr>, Claude 
Mussou <cmussou [at] ina [dot] fr>, Angela Saward <a [dot] saward [at] 
wellcome [dot] ac [dot] uk> and Jessica Borge <jborge [at] unistra [dot] 
fr>. We invite you to submit your proposals (500 word abstract) by 1 
June 2019 to VIEW’s managing editor at <journal [at] euscreen [dot] eu>.

Authors will be notified by 1 July and full articles (3000-6000 words) 
must be submitted by October 2019, they will then be circulated for the 
double-blind peer reviewing process, for publication in winter 2020.

About VIEW Journal
See www.viewjournal.eu <http://www.viewjournal.eu> for the current and 
back issues. VIEW is supported by the EUscreen Network 
<http://blog.euscreen.eu/> and published by the Netherlands Institute 
for Sound and Vision. VIEW is proud to be an open access journal. All 
articles are hosted by Ubiquity Press and indexed through the Directory 
of Open Access Journals, the EBSCO Film and Television Index, Paperity 
and NARCIS.


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