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Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness CULTURES OF ORAL HEALTH DISCOURSES, PRACTICES, AND THEORY Edited by Claire L. Jones and Barry J. Gibson Cultures of Oral Health Oral health is integral to wellbeing 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. Claire L. Jones is Senior Lecturer in the History of Medicine at the University of Kent, UK. Barry J. Gibson is Professor in Medical Sociology in the University of Sheffield’s School of Clinical Dentistry, UK. Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness Survivorship: A Sociology of Cancer in Everyday Life Alex Broom and Katherine Kenny Living Pharmaceutical Lives Peri Ballantyne and Kath Ryan Conflict of Interest and Medicine Knowledge, Practices, and Mobilizations Edited by Boris Hauray, Henri Boullier, Jean-Paul Gaudillière and Hélène Michel Weight Bias in Health Education Critical Perspectives for Pedagogy and Practice Edited by Heather Brown and Nancy Ellis-Ordway Dying in a Transhumanist and Posthuman Society Panagiotis Pentaris Digital Transformations in Care for Older People Critical Perspectives Helena Hirvonen, Mia Tammelin, Riitta Hänninen and Eveline J.M. Wouters Public Discourse and Health Policies The Price of Health in Contemporary Italy Nicoletta Bosco Cultures of Oral Health Discourses, Practices and Theory Claire L. Jones and Barry J. Gibson The Regulation of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Europe Variation, Convergence and Trends Edited by Erich Griessler, Lenka Slepičková, Heleen Weyers, Florian Winkler and Nicolle Zeegers. For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.routledge.com/ Routledge-Studies-in-the-Sociology-of-Health-and-Illness/book-series/RSSHI Cultures of Oral Health Discourses, Practices, and Theory Edited by Claire L. Jones and Barry J. Gibson First published 2023 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2023 selection and editorial matter, Claire L. Jones and Barry J. Gibson; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Claire L. Jones and Barry J. Gibson to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalog record has been requested for this book ISBN: 978-0-367-49851-1 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-032-28907-6 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-04767-4 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9781003047674 Typeset in Goudy by MPS Limited, Dehradun Contents List of figures vii List of tables viii List of contributors ix Acknowledgements xiv 1 Oral health: an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary approach? 1 CLAIRE L. JONES AND BARRY J. GIBSON PART I Professionalism, ethics, and inequalities 25 2 Do dentists’ views on professionalism include moral inclusiveness? 27 BONNIE YU, ABDULRAHMAN GHONEIM, HERENIA P. LAWRENCE, MICHAEL GLOGAUER, AND CARLOS QUIÑONEZ 3 Designing healthy smiles 47 RIZWANA LALA 4 Feminism, pipelines and gender myths: interrogating gender equality and inclusion in dentistry 65 PATRICIA NEVILLE PART II Cultural representations of the mouth and teeth 81 5 Toothy tales: dentures in the writings of H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling 83 RYAN SWEET vi Contents 6 Metaphors in the mouth: on dental fitness and iatronormativity 96 DAVID SCOTT 7 ‘DO AS YOUR DENTIST TELLS YOU’: mouthwash advertising in interwar America 108 ALEXANDER C. L. HOLDEN 8 Science, beauty and health: the explosion of toothpaste and toothbrush advertising in interwar America 124 CATHERINE CARSTAIRS PART III The patient’s perspective 141 9 Tommy’s teeth: trench mouth, dentures and dental health among British army recruits in World War One 143 HELEN STRONG 10 The mouth as the gateway to the leaky body: the visibility of internal bleeding in the mouths of people with haemophilia 155 ALISON DOUGALL, BLÁNAID DALY, AND SASHA SCAMBLER 11 ‘Having work done’: the teeth, mouth and oral health as a body project 170 BARRY J. GIBSON, JENNIFER KETTLE, AND LORNA WARREN PART IV State, surveillance, and social justice 185 12 ‘Enlightened employers of labour?’: oral health in the British factory, 1890–1930 187 CLAIRE L. JONES 13 The state of tooth decay: dental knowledge, medical policy and fluoridation in Sweden, 1952–1962 204 JONATAN SAMUELSSON 14 The cultural politics of dental humanitarianism 222 SARAH E. RASKIN Index 237 Figures 2.1 Distribution of moral community scores 36 7.1 ‘Do as Your Dentist Tells You’ 109 7.2 ‘Who Stole This Dentist’s Hour?’ 115 7.3 ‘Three Years Old, so to the Dentist We Will Go!’ 117 8.1 Colgate advertisement 130 8.2 Ipana advertisement 133 12.1 ‘The Dental Department Staff’ at Cadbury’s 193 12.2 Factory dental department, c. 1920 197 12.3 Cinemotor van in Bermondsey showing a slide of the structure of teeth 199 13.1 Map showing the two zones being served by separate water piping systems 209 13.2 Engineer Harry Åkerlund operating the fluoride dispenser at the Norrköping City Waterworks 210 13.3 American antifluoridation sticker 213 13.4 Swedish antifluoridation sticker 214 Tables 2.1 Excerpts from codes of ethics for Ontario dentists which represent moral inclusion or moral inclusiveness 29 2.2 Dentists’ level of agreement with the Likert-type scale questions on moral inclusiveness 33 2.3 Respondents’ characteristics 35 2.4 Agreeing or strongly agreeing with Likert-type scale questions on moral inclusiveness and the odds of having a broad moral community 37 2.5 Logistic regression analyses for having a broad moral community 38 7.1 Description of Lavoris advertisements within the series 110 9.1 Causes of overseas hospital admissions, 1915 147 Contributors Catherine Carstairs is a professor at the University of Guelph, where her work focuses on the history of public health. She is the co-author with Bethany Philpott and Sara Wilmshurst of Be Wise! Be Healthy!: Morality and Citizenship in Canadian Public Health Campaigns (2018) and Jailed for Possession: Illegal Drug Use, Regulation and Power in Canada, 1920–1961 (2006). Her new book The Smile Gap: A History of Oral Health and Social Inequality is scheduled to be published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2022. Blánaid Daly is professor of Special Care Dentistry (SCD), School of Dental Science, Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and consultant at the Dublin Dental University Hospital (DDUH). For the past 30 years, she has combined her academic interest in DPH with the clinical specialty of SCD, returning to TCD in 2016 as professor. In 2020, she was appointed to the Lancet Commission on Global Oral Health Inequalities and was joint winner of the Aubrey Sheiham award for distinguished research in dental public health, from the International Association of Dental Research (IADR). Her overarching research interest theme is the reduction of oral health inequalities for people living with disability and vulnerable groups. Alison Dougall is consultant for medically compromised patients at Dublin Dental Hospital and director of the three-year specialist clinical training and doctorate programmes in Special Care Dentistry at Trinity College Dublin. She has led dental care services for the past 15 years at the National Coagulation Centre and was awarded Healthcare Leader in Ireland in 2017 for her work in developing oral healthcare pathways for adults with bleeding disorders in Ireland. Alison is the current president of the International Association for Disability and Oral Health, and in 2021, she was awarded the prestigious John Tomes Prize by the Royal College of Surgeons in England to recognise her significant contribution to the advancement of global health care. Abdulrahman Ghoneim obtained his bachelor of dental surgery from Egypt before moving to Canada where he obtained his master’s in dental public