‘Everyday health’, embodiment, and selfhood since 1950
‘Everyday health’, embodiment, and selfhood since 1950

Author: Tracey Loughran

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2024-10-22

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1526170663

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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.

'Everyday Health', Embodiment, and Selfhood Since 1950
'Everyday Health', Embodiment, and Selfhood Since 1950

Author: Senior Lecturer in Medical History Tracey Loughran

Publisher:

Published: 2024-10-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781526170651

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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.

Responsible Pleasure
Responsible Pleasure

Author: DR CAROLINE. RUSTERHOLZ

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024-07-18

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 0192866273

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This book offers a historical account of the public debates, institutional monitoring, and private experiences of youth sexuality in Britain between the 1960s to the 1990s. It uses the Brook Advisory Centre--a leading sexual health charity--as a case study to explore the changing British landscape of sexual politics during this period.

Vaccinating Britain
Vaccinating Britain

Author: Gareth Millward

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2019-01-29

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 152612677X

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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Vaccinating Britain shows how the British public has played a central role in the development of vaccination policy since the Second World War. It explores the relationship between the public and public health through five key vaccines – diphtheria, smallpox, poliomyelitis, whooping cough and measles-mumps-rubella (MMR). It reveals that while the British public has embraced vaccination as a safe, effective and cost-efficient form of preventative medicine, demand for vaccination and trust in the authorities that provide it has ebbed and flowed according to historical circumstances. It is the first book to offer a long-term perspective on vaccination across different vaccine types. This history provides context for students and researchers interested in present-day controversies surrounding public health immunisation programmes. Historians of the post-war British welfare state will find valuable insight into changing public attitudes towards institutions of government and vice versa.

Sport and Physical Culture in Occupied France
Sport and Physical Culture in Occupied France

Author: Keith Rathbone

Publisher:

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781526153289

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Sport and physical culture in Occupied France is a scholarly and readable account of French sport during the Vichy regime. It explores two competing phenomena: the state's promotion of physical culture to rehabilitate French people during the Occupation and athletes' and sporting associations' use of the state's efforts to serve their own agendas.

Medical Histories of Belgium
Medical Histories of Belgium

Author: David Cantor

Publisher: Social Histories of Medicine

Published: 2021-10

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9781526151087

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Medical histories of Belgium reshapes Belgian history of medicine by bringing together a new generation of scholars and engage with broader European developments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Madness on trial
Madness on trial

Author: James Moran

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2019-05-13

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1526133059

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This book examines the role of civil law in determining mental capacity over a five hundred year period in England and in New Jersey.

Global Health and the New World Order
Global Health and the New World Order

Author: Jean-Paul Gaudilliere

Publisher:

Published: 2020-11-09

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9781526149671

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This book proposes an encompassing view of the transition from international public health to global health, bringing together historians and anthropologists exploring the relationship between knowledge, practices and policies. Historical and anthropological studies of the governance of health outside Europe and North America leave us with two gaps. The first is a temporal gap between the historiography of international public health through the 1970s and the numerous current anthropological studies of global health. The second gap originates in problems of scale. Macro-inquiries of institutions and politics abound, as do micro-investigations of local configurations. The book interrogates these gaps through an engagement between the disciplines, the harnessing of concepts (circulation, scale, transnationalism) that cross both domains, and the selection of four domains of interventions and globalisation: tuberculosis, mental health, medical genetics and traditional (Asian) medicines.

Psychoanalysis and the Family in Twentieth-Century France
Psychoanalysis and the Family in Twentieth-Century France

Author: Richard Bates

Publisher:

Published: 2022-01-25

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9781526159625

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In the last quarter of the twentieth century, if French people had a parenting problem or dilemma there was one person they consulted above all: Françoise Dolto (1908-88). But who was Dolto? How did she achieve a position of such influence? What ideas did she communicate to the French public? This book connects the story of Dolto's rise to two broader histories: the dramatic growth of psychoanalysis in postwar France and the long-running debate over the family and the proper role of women in society. It shows that Dolto's continued reputation in France as a liberal and enlightened educational thinker is at best only partially deserved and that conservative and anti-feminist ideas often underpinned her prominent public interventions. While Dolto retains the status of a national treasure, her career has had far-reaching and sometimes harmful repercussions for French society, particularly in the treatment of autism.

The politics of vaccination
The politics of vaccination

Author: Christine Holmberg

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2017-03-16

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1526110938

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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Mass vaccination campaigns are political projects that presume to protect individuals, communities, and societies. Like other pervasive expressions of state power - taxing, policing, conscripting - mass vaccination arouses anxiety in some people but sentiments of civic duty and shared solidarity in others. This collection of essays gives a comparative overview of vaccination at different times, in widely different places and under different types of political regime. Core themes in the chapters include immunisation as an element of state formation; citizens' articulation of seeing (or not seeing) their needs incorporated into public health practice; allegations that donors of development aid have too much influence on third-world health policies; and an ideological shift that regards vaccines more as profitable commodities than as essential tools of public health.