‘Everyday Health’, Embodiment, and Selfhood Since 1950
- Hardcover
440 pages
- Release Date
28 January 2025
Summary
Everyday Health: A People’s History of Wellbeing Since 1950
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 o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781526170651 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1526170655 |
| Series: | Social Histories of Medicine |
| Author: | Tracey Loughran, Hannah Froom, Kate Mahoney, Daisy Payling |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
| Imprint: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 440 |
| Release Date: | 28 January 2025 |
| Weight: | 690g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 138mm x 25mm |
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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.” - Social History of Medicine – .
About The Author
Tracey Loughran
Hannah Froom is an independent early career scholar.
Tracey Loughran is a Professor of History at the University of Essex.
Kate Mahoney is a Research Manager at Healthwatch Essex, and a Community Fellow at the University of Essex.
Daisy Payling is an Engagement Officer at Queen Mary University of London.
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