Balancing the self

Medicine, politics and the regulation of health in the twentieth century
Herausgeber: Jackson, Mark; Moore, Martin D.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Balancing the Self generates new insights into emerging fields of health governance, subjectivity and balance. This volume's wide-ranging discussions will be of interest to historians of medicine, sociologists, social policy analysts, and social and political historians, as well as lay and professional readers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 589g
• ISBN-13: 9781526132130
• ISBN-10: 1526132133
• Artikelnr.: 57478322

Autorenporträt

Mark Jackson is Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health at the University of Exeter Martin D. Moore is a Research Fellow at the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health at the University of Exeter

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: balancing the self in the twentieth century
Mark Jackson and Martin D. Moore Part I: Configuring balance 2 Balance and the 'good' diabetic in Britain, c.1900
1960
Martin D. Moore 3 From the alcoholic to the sensible drinker: alcohol health education campaigns in England
Alex Mold 4 `Look After Yourself': visualising obesity as a public health concern in 1970s and 1980s Britain
Jane Hand Part II: Regulating imbalance 5 Self
help and self
promotion: dietary advice and agency in North America and Britain
Nicos Kefalas 6 Your life in your hands: teaching `relaxed living' in post
war Britain
Ayesha Nathoo 7 Pilot fatigue and the regulation of airline schedules in post
war Britain
Natasha Feiner Part III: Reconfiguring balance 8 Extreme acts: narratives of balance and moderation at the limits of human performance
Vanessa Heggie 9 Self
help, marriage guidance and the making of the midlife crisis
Mark Jackson 10 Balancing contested meanings of creativity and pathology in Parkinson's Disease
Dorothy Porter 11 Conclusion: balance, malleability and anthropology: historical contexts
Chris Millard Index