“Fighting the Uncertainty of Tomorrow”: Explaining and Portraying the Social Security System on French Television for Schools

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https://doi.org/10.18146/view.227

Keywords:

Welfare system, France, school television, public health, Sécurité sociale, health insurance, instructional television, social welfare administration

Abstract

This contribution analyses in detail a series of instructional television programmes for schools produced between the 1950s and the 1980s on national health insurance and the French social welfare system (known as Sécurité sociale). We consider the televisualization of health issues from two alternative perspectives: school television as a type of public health service and access as a matter of social welfare and public health. We investigate how these television programmes, which focus closely on social welfare administration, sought both to educate captive school audiences as future citizens and to shape and form their attitudes towards it.

Author Biographies

Christian Bonah, Université de Strasbourg

Christian Bonah is professor for history of health and life sciences at the University of Strasbourg. He has worked on the comparative history of medical education, the history of medicaments, human experimentation and more recently the history of medical film. He is principle investigator of the ERC advanced grant The Healthy Self as Body Capital.

Joël Danet, Université de Strasbourg

Joël Danet is researcher at the Department for History of Medical and Health Sciences at the University of Strasbourg. He has worked in the field of visual education and documentary film history and as a film programme curator for the documentary film association Vidéo les Beaux Jours in Strasbourg.

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Published

2020-12-24

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Vol. 9 No. 18 (2020): Tele(visualizing) Health

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Explorations

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