‘Everyday health’, embodiment, and selfhood since 1950
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Social Histories of Medicine
ISBN-10
1526197987
ISBN-13
9781526197986
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Imprint
Manchester University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 23rd, 2026
Print length
472 Pages
Weight
586 grams
Dimensions
21.50 x 14.00 x 2.80 cms
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The volume explores the shaping of ‘everyday health’ in different contexts since 1950. It shows how different aspects of identity affected experiences of health and wellbeing. -- .
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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