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Social Histories Of Medicine

How everyday health, the body and selfhood have been shaped since 1950.
Reading guide
This is a self-contained study, so it can be read on its own without any prior reading. The publisher's framing question makes a useful starting point for the whole book.
The publisher's blurb asks what the history of everyday health in the postwar world is and where it might be found. The book moves away from histories centred on states, medical professionals and other experts, and centres the day-to-day lives of people in diverse contexts from 1950 to the present.

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What does everyday health look like in the postwar world, and where can we find its history? Tracey Loughran's study turns away from top-down accounts that centre states, medical professionals and other experts. Instead, it focuses on the day-to-day lives of people in diverse contexts, tracing developments from 1950 to the present.

The book looks at how personal health, the physical body and the construction of identity are bound together, and how individual selfhood relates to medical frameworks. It examines the cultural and social factors that shape the experience of health in ordinary life, offering a detailed account of how perceptions of wellness and embodiment have changed over several decades. It will suit readers of the history of medicine and of the sociology of the modern self.

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