‘Everyday health’, embodiment, and selfhood since 1950 (Social Histories of Medicine, 61)

By Tracey Loughran, Hannah Froom, Kate Mahoney, Daisy Payling 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. Product Details Publisher ‏ : ‎ Manchester University Press (October 22, 2024) Language ‏ : ‎ English Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 440 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1526170655 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1526170651