Everyday Health, Embodiment, and Selfhood Since 1950

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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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Hannah Froom: Independent early career scholar. Tracey Loughran: Professor, University of Manchester. Kate Mahoney: Research Manager at Healthwatch Essex, Community Fellow at University of Essex. Daisy Payling: Engagement Officer at Queen Mary University of London.