Cover -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Introduction: publics and their health - historical problems and perspectives -- 1. 'Democracy trains its microscope' on public health: intergovernmental relations, competing publics and negotiations at the grassroots -- 2. 'Dumping grounds for … human waste': containing problem populations in post-war British public health policy, 1945-74 -- 3. Socialism, health and the politics of identity: conversations from East Germany's AIDS crisis -- 4. Forgoing fat: food choice, disease prevention and the role of the food industry in health promotion in England, 1980-92 -- 5. At the borders of the public: immigrant and migrant publics and the right to health -- 6. The emergence of violence as a public health problem in Argentina -- Afterword: from Asiatic cholera to COVID-19 - the many publics of modern public health -- Index.