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.
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 functions as a fascinating collection of essays, but also as a practical guide and a manifesto for new ways of doing the history of medicine and health Above all else, though, this volume is a call for historians of health to think more deeply about how multiple selves, including themselves, make up the histories that surround us.' Alex Mold, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
a contribution with something to say to almost any historian of the last seventy-five years, to myriad colleagues in other disciplines, and to anyone working in everyday health today Fred Cooper, University of Bristol -- .
Introduction: Everyday health, embodiment, and selfhood since 1950
Hannah Froom, Tracey Loughran, Kate Mahoney, and Daisy Payling
Part I: Experiential expertise
Introduction Hannah Froom and Tracey Loughran
1 Alex Comforts The Joy of Sex and the tensions of liberal sexpertise Ben
Mechen
2 Two more calls, one in tears : emotion, labour, and ethics of care at
the Calgary Birth Control Association, 1970-79 Karissa Robyn Patton
3 Expertise and experience in the Greek feminist birth control movement, c.
1974-86 Evangelia Chordaki
4 Migration, kinship, and everyday theorising: Black British womens
narratives of genetic diagnosis in the postwar National Health Service
Grace Redhead
Part II: Sites and spaces
Introduction Tracey Loughran
5 Writing everyday life into law: the household duties test, disabled
women, social security, and assumed normality Gareth Millward
6 Friendship, mutual aid, and activism in British transfeminine spaces,
1968-85 Fleur MacInnes
7 A private matter? The Brook Advisory Centre and young peoples everyday
sexual and reproductive health in the 1960s-80s Caroline Rusterholz
8 Queering the agony aunt: reusing and adapting a public engagement activity
for different audiences Daisy Payling
Part III: Mass media and networks of communication
Introduction Daisy Payling and Tracey Loughran
9 Thirty years behind England? Framing natural childbirth in postwar
Canada Whitney Wood
10 I started a new life when I joined Gemma: disability, community, and
sexuality in Gemma newsletters, 1978-2000 Beckie Rutherford
11 Talk shows and tanorexia: motherhood and sunbed addiction on British
television in the 1990s Fabiola Creed
12 Having been there I know how hard it is: relatability and ordinariness
in twenty-first century British clean eating Louise Morgan
Part IV: Subjectivity and intersubjectivity
Introduction Kate Mahoney and Tracey Loughran
13 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 Thomson
15 What your generation probably dont understand is : exploring
intergenerational dynamics in oral history Kate Mahoney
16 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 -- .
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. -- .
