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‘Everyday health’, embodiment, and selfhood since 1950

Series: Social Histories of Medicine
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Everyday Health, Embodiment, and Selfhood since 1950 explores the history of 'everyday health' in the postwar world and examines where it might be found. This volume shifts focus from top-down histories of health and medicine that emphasise states, medical professionals, and other experts. Instead, it centres... Read More
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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.

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Everyday Health, Embodiment, and Selfhood since 1950 explores the history of 'everyday health' in the postwar world and examines where it might be found. This volume shifts focus from top-down histories of health and medicine that emphasise states, medical professionals, and other experts.

Instead, it centres on the day-to-day lives of people in diverse contexts from 1950 to the present. Chapters delve into how gender, class, 'race', sexuality, disability, and age influenced experiences of health and wellbeing in historical contexts.

The volume foregrounds methodologies for writing bottom-up histories of health, subjectivity, and embodiment, providing insights applicable to scholars studying different times and places beyond the case studies presented here. By compiling cutting-edge scholarship, the volume establishes and critically interrogates 'everyday health' as a crucial concept poised to shape future histories of health and medicine.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781526197986

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 June 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Manchester University Press

Contributors:

  • Edited by Kate Mahoney
  • Edited by Tracey Loughran
  • Edited by Hannah Froom
  • Edited by Daisy Payling

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 541g

Pages: 472

Collections

Education & Reference History & Archaeology History & Military Series: Social Histories of Medicine Uncategorised

About the Author

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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