The Second World War and the rise of social medicine in 1940s Britain reframed population health as a social problem in need of state investigation. The resulting government inquiry, the Survey of Sickness, sampled the whole adult population of England and Wales, engaging a broad and diverse cross-section in public health research for the first time. Complaints made against the Survey of Sickness reveal a complex set of relationships between different sections of the public and the British state. This article situates complaints about privacy, liberty, and wasted resources, as well as challenges to the authority of survey fieldworkers, in the context of wider resistance to postwar controls. By viewing these protests and criticisms in light of the material circumstances of the people who made them, this article argues that, for those with social, economic, and political capital, the role of the public in public health was up for negotiation in postwar Britain. The everyday politics of the survey's doorstep encounters were heavily influenced by gendered notions of home and citizenship. This exploration of how different sections of the public were constructed by public health and how they responded to that construction describes the hierarchies of expertise under formation while illuminating how class and gender informed contemporary understandings of citizenship in the emerging postwar British state.

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“给我们写信的人就是不喜欢我们的人”：1943-1952 年疾病调查中的阶级、性别和公民身份

第二次世界大战和 1940 年代社会医学的兴起，英国将人口健康重新定义为需要国家调查的社会问题。由此产生的政府调查，即疾病调查，对英格兰和威尔士的整个成年人口进行了抽样调查，首次在公共卫生研究中涉及广泛而多样的横截面。对疾病调查的投诉揭示了公众不同部分与英国政府之间的一系列复杂关系。本文在战后控制受到更广泛抵制的背景下，对隐私、自由和资源浪费以及对调查实地工作者权威的挑战进行了阐述。通过从制造这些抗议和批评的人的物质环境来看这些抗议和批评，本文认为，对于那些有社会、经济和政治资本，公众在公共卫生中的作用在战后的英国有待商榷。调查的家门口遭遇的日常政治深受家庭和公民的性别观念的影响。对公共卫生如何构建不同公众部分以及他们如何应对这种构建的探索描述了正在形成的专业知识的层次结构，同时阐明了阶级和性别如何影响当代对战后英国国家公民身份的理解。