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Item From social hygiene to social health: Indiana and the United States adolescent sex education movement, 1907-1975(2015) Potter, Angela Bowen; Scarpino, Philip V.; Schneider, William H.; Robertson, Nancy Marie, 1956-This thesis examines the evolution of the adolescent sex education during from 1907 to 1975, from the perspective of Indiana and highlights the contingencies, continuities, and discontinuities across place and time. This period represents the establishment of the defining characteristics of sex education in Indiana as locally controlled and school-based, as well as the Social Health Association’s transformation from one of a number of local social hygiene organizations to the nation’s only school based social health agency. Indiana was not a local exception to the American sex education movement, but SHA was exceptional for SHA its organizational longevity, adaptation, innovation in school-based curriculum, and national leadership in sex education. Indiana sex education leadership seems, at first glance, incongruous due to Indiana’s conservative politics. SHA’s efforts to adapt the message, curriculum, and operation in Indiana’s conservative climate helped it endure and take leadership role on a national stage. By 1975, sex education came to be defined as school based, locally controlled and based on the medicalization of health, yet this growing national consensus belied deep internal contradictions where sex education was not part of the regular school health curriculum and outside of the schools’ control. Underlying this story is fundamental difference between social hygiene and health, that hygiene is a set of practices to prevent disease, while health is an internal state to promote wellness.Item “Ignorance is not Innocence”: The Social Health Association of Indiana and Adolescent Sex Education, 1907-2007(Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2014-04-11) Potter, Angela Bowen; Scarpino, Philip V.“Ignorance is not innocence,” thundered John Hurty Secretary of the Indiana Board of Health in 1913 attempting to persuade his colleagues that only “sex knowledge” could prevent the problem of adolescent venereal disease. Throughout the twentieth century, Hurty and other Indiana reformers took the lead in national efforts to raise public awareness of the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases as part of larger debates on how to educate adolescents on the dangers of sexual activity prior to marriage This project, funded in part by the IUPUI Solution Center and Social Health Association of Indiana (SHA), seeks to use various public history methodologies to illustrate the important role Indiana played in the history of adolescent sexuality education. The history of the Social Health Association of Indiana (SHA) reflects changes not only in the sexuality education movement, but also in the broader context of adolescent sexuality, educational reform and public health movements. This project is an example of the IUPUI’s Public History Master’s program training that blends theory and hands-on experience specific to public history, often in partnership with community organizations. Today, the SHA continues their 100 year tradition of “foster successful lives by empowering youth to make responsible choices and adopt healthy behaviors.”