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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.
Price: £90.00
Pages: 440
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publication Date:
22 October 2024
ISBN: 9781526170651
Format: Hardback
Introduction: ‘Everyday health’, embodiment, and selfhood since 1950 – Hannah Froom, Tracey Loughran, Kate Mahoney, and Daisy PaylingPart I: Experiential expertiseIntroduction – Hannah Froom and Tracey Loughran1 Alex Comfort’s The Joy of Sex and the tensions of liberal sexpertise – Ben Mechen2 ‘Two more calls, one in tears …’: emotion, labour, and ethics of care at the Calgary Birth Control Association, 1970-79 – Karissa Robyn Patton3 Expertise and experience in the Greek feminist birth control movement, c. 1974-86 – Evangelia Chordaki4 Migration, kinship, and ‘everyday theorising’: Black British women’s narratives of genetic diagnosis in the postwar National Health Service – Grace RedheadPart II: Sites and spacesIntroduction – Tracey Loughran5 Writing everyday life into law: the ‘household duties test’, disabled women, social security, and assumed normality – Gareth Millward6 Friendship, mutual aid, and activism in British transfeminine spaces, 1968-85 – Fleur MacInnes7 A private matter? The Brook Advisory Centre and young people’s everyday sexual and reproductive health in the 1960s-80s – Caroline Rusterholz8 Queering the agony aunt: reusing and adapting a public engagement activity for different audiences – Daisy PaylingPart III: Mass media and networks of communicationIntroduction – Daisy Payling and Tracey Loughran9 ‘Thirty years behind England’? Framing ‘natural’ childbirth in postwar Canada – Whitney Wood10 ‘I started a new life when I joined Gemma’: disability, community, and sexuality in Gemma newsletters, 1978-2000 – Beckie Rutherford11 Talk shows and ‘tanorexia’: motherhood and ‘sunbed addiction’ on British television in the 1990s – Fabiola Creed12 ‘Having been there … I know how hard it is’: relatability and ordinariness in twenty-first century British clean eating – Louise MorganPart IV: Subjectivity and intersubjectivityIntroduction – Kate Mahoney and Tracey Loughran13 Girlhood menstrual management and the ‘culture of concealment’ in postwar Britain – Hannah Froom 14 Is sex good for you? Risk, reward, and responsibility for young women in the late 1980s – Rosie Gahnstrom, Lucy Robinson, and Rachel Thomson15 ‘What your generation probably don’t understand is …’: exploring intergenerational dynamics in oral history – Kate Mahoney16 Cultivating vulnerability: power and the emotional ethics of oral history practice beyond the interview – Tracey Loughran 17 … and breathe: style narratives at home March 2020-March 2021 – Carol Tulloch