Oral health is integral to well-being and quality of life. This important edited volume brings together leading scholars to address global oral health and the multiple ways in which theory, practice and discourse have shaped it in the modern period.
Structured around key themes, the book chapters draw on interdisciplinary perspectives in order to consider the role of the dental profession, the commercial sector, charities, the state, the media and patients in shaping oral health in the past and present. Collectively, the chapters consider the extent to which each of the studied groups and actors have sought to own and control the mouth. By adopting multiple perspectives, the book highlights the importance of cross-disciplinary work across the sciences, social sciences and humanities and provides a road map for a new interdisciplinary field focused on oral health and society.
Drawing on perspectives from dentistry, sociology, history and the wider humanities, this book will interest students and researchers of dentistry, public health, sociology of health and illness, the medical humanities and history.
Author(s): Claire L. Jones, Barry J. Gibson
Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 260
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Figures
Tables
Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Oral health: an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary approach?
Oral health disciplines or disciplining oral health?
Professionalism, ethics and inequalities
Cultural representations of the mouth and teeth
The patient's perspective
State, surveillance and social justice
Note
Reference List
Part I: Professionalism, ethics, and inequalities
2. Do dentists' views on professionalism include moral inclusiveness?
Introduction
Moral inclusion and moral inclusiveness in the dental literature
Measuring moral inclusiveness
Do dentists' views on professionalism include moral inclusiveness?
What does moral inclusiveness mean to the dental profession?
References
3. Designing healthy smiles
Janette's journey
The beautiful smile in messages
Cosmetic dentistry - the contradiction of beauty in healthcare
The business of dentistry
Dentists' cosmetic training - the disjunctures
Glamorous beauty in healthcare
Social impacts
Conclusion
Notes
References
4. Feminism, pipelines and gender myths: interrogating gender equality and inclusion in dentistry
Introduction
Using feminism to navigate the dental pipeline
Access and participation in higher education
Career progression
Discussion and recommendations
Conclusion
References
Part II: Cultural representations of the mouth and teeth
5. Toothy tales: dentures in the writings of H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling
Grotesque humour
Imperial concerns
Personal experience
Conclusion
References
6. Metaphors in the mouth: on dental fitness and iatronormativity
Fitness as metaphor
A body under siege
The iatronormative
Notes
References
7. 'DO AS YOUR DENTIST TELLS YOU': mouthwash advertising in interwar America
Introduction
The reader: who do the adverts speak to?
Legitimising the professional status of the dentist
Male and Pale
Professional authority and good dental citizenship
The Dentist as military man
Excluding the charlatan
Conclusion
Note
References
8. Science, beauty and health: the explosion of toothpaste and toothbrush advertising in interwar America
Introduction
Methodology
Dental science and 'mouth hygiene'
Advertising toothpaste and toothbrushes: removing the film and preventing pink toothbrush
The parables of toothpaste advertising
Dentists and toothpaste advertising
Advertising and the rise of toothbrushing
Acknowledgements
References
Part III: The patient's perspective
9. Tommy's teeth: trench mouth, dentures and dental health among British army recruits in World War One
Dentistry in the British army: a historical overview
Enlisting soldiers with bad teeth during World War One
Tommy's teeth in the trenches
On the home front
Conclusion
Notes
Reference List
10. The mouth as the gateway to the leaky body: the visibility of internal bleeding in the mouths of people with haemophilia
Introduction
A sociological take on haemophilia and the mouth
Experiences of bleeding from the mouth
Internal bleeding, invisible blood
Visible blood
Blood and dentists
A daily bloody mouth
Reflections on the role of the mouth in haemophilia
References
11. 'Having work done': the teeth, mouth and oral health as a body project
Oral care as a life course project
'Having work done'
Embodiment and dental work
Conclusion
Notes
References
Part IV: State, surveillance, and social justice
12. 'Enlightened employers of labour?': oral health in the British factory, 1890-1930
Introduction
Phossy jaw in the match factory, c. 1890-1912
Enhancing worker efficiency and the benevolent paternalism of confectioners, c. 1904-1925
Industrial welfare professionalised, socialism and the biscuit maker, c. 1918-1930
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
13. The state of tooth decay: dental knowledge, medical policy and fluoridation in Sweden, 1952-1962
Science and society: the origins and contexts of fluoridation
Public health and the Swedish welfare state
Fluoridation begins in Norrköping
Crafting consensus: the fluoride committees
Lex Norrköping: Fluoridation halts and the Water Fluoridation Act is created
Conclusion
Notes
References
14. The cultural politics of dental humanitarianism
Introduction
Envisioning critical dental humanitarianism
Affective relations and moral decisions at the dental charity fair
Socialising affective morality through dental professional training
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
