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'Everyday health', embodiment, and selfhood since 1950 : Social Histories of Medicine - Tracey Loughran

'Everyday health', embodiment, and selfhood since 1950

By: Tracey Loughran (Editor), Hannah Froom (Editor), Kate Mahoney (Editor), Daisy Payling (Editor)

Hardcover | 22 October 2024

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What is the history of 'everyday health' in the postwar world, and where might we find it? This volume moves away from top-down histories of health and medicine that focus on states, medical professionals, and other experts. Instead, it centres the day-to-day lives of people in diverse contexts from 1950 to the present. Chapters explore how gender, class, 'race', sexuality, disability, and age mediated experiences of health and wellbeing in historical context. The volume foregrounds methodologies for writing bottom-up histories of health, subjectivity, and embodiment, offering insights applicable to scholars of times and places beyond those represented in the case studies presented here. Drawing together cutting-edge scholarship, the volume establishes and critically interrogates 'everyday health' as a crucial concept that will shape future histories of health and medicine.

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'Everyday Health functions as a fascinating collection of essays, but also as a practical guide and a manifesto for new ways of doing the history of medicine and health... Above all else, though, this volume is a call for historians of health to think more deeply about how multiple selves, including themselves, make up the histories that surround us.' - Alex Mold, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

'a contribution with something to say to almost any historian of the last seventy-five years, to myriad colleagues in other disciplines, and to anyone working in 'everyday health' today'
- Fred Cooper, University of Bristol

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