’Everyday Health’, Embodiment, and Selfhood Since 1950

Hannah Froom is an independent early career scholar. Tracey Loughran: is a Professor at the University of Manchester. 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.

'Everyday Health', embodiment, and selfhood since 1950 is a bold intervention in the social history of medicine, exploring the shaping of 'everyday health' in different contexts since 1950.The volume centres the day-to-day health experiences of diverse individuals and groups, in contrast to histories that focus on states, medical professionals, and other experts. It illustrates how different aspects of identity affected experiences of health and wellbeing in the postwar era. Its emphasis on intersectionality extends existing social histories of health and contributes to wider discussions on the politics of identity. The volume foregrounds methodologies for writing bottom-up histories of health, subjectivity, and embodiment. Several chapters explore how historians research, write, and interact with different participants and audiences. This methodological focus ensures its relevance to scholars everywhere. In problematising the term 'everyday health', it contributes to debates on 'expertise' and 'ordinariness'.This exciting new volume establishes 'everyday health' as a lens through which to (re)examine the history of health and medicine.