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Health, Fitness, and Wellness in the Public Sphere

This panel brings together three very different ways in which individual health is affected by public movements - whether the emergence of fitness classes such as Zumba, the popularization of automobiles, or industrialization in the nineteenth century.

Presentations

Identity Danced Out: Zumba as a Means of Self-Expression

Presenters

Dara Phillips

Car Crash Culture: Paintings and Prints of Automobile Accidents in the 1930s

Presenters

Lisa Dorrill

The Impact of the Cotton Industry on Public Health in Nineteenth Century Manchester (United Kingdom).

Presenters

Brahma Mihir Mohanty

Session chairs

Danie Greenwell Pamela Monaco