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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
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
Summary
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. -- .
