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October 2003, Vol 93, No. 10 | American Journal of Public Health 1643
© 2003 American Public Health Association

IMAGES OF HEALTH

Shame on You, Uncle!

Elizabeth Fee and Theodore M. Brown

Elizabeth Fee is with the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. Theodore M. Brown is with the Departments of History and of Community and Preventive Medicine at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Elizabeth Fee, PhD, Building 38, Room 1E21, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894 (e-mail: elizabeth_ fee@nlm.nih.gov).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

THE CHILD IN THIS SOVIET poster is a Young Pioneer; his red armband indicates that he is on patrol. The Young Pioneer organization was created soon after the Russian Revolution. Just as, in the classroom, children with red armbands were responsible for keeping desks tidy and blackboards clean, so, in the street, children with red armbands were responsible for educating others, including adults, about proper behavior. This child addresses the man as "uncle," a familiar term of address in Russia from a child to any older man. The man pretends not to hear, although knowing that he is in the . . . [Full Text]






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