‘Everyday health’, embodiment, and selfhood since 1950

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Hannah Froom
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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 to centre the day-to-day lives of people in diverse contexts from 1950 to the present. It makes three major contributions to scholarship: it explores how gender, class, ‘race’, sexuality, disability, and age mediated experiences of health and wellbeing in historical context, moving beyond and helping to explain current understandings of the politics of identity; it consciously 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; finally, drawing together cutting-edge scholarship, it establishes and critically interrogates ‘everyday health’ as a crucial concept that will shape future histories of health and medicine.

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