Balancing the self Medicine, politics and the regulation of health in the twentieth century

• Այլ հեղինակներ: Jackson, Mark (Խմբագիր), Moore, Martin D. (Խմբագիր)
• Ձևաչափ: Էլեկտրոնային Գրքի գլուխ
• Լեզու: անգլերեն
• Հրապարակվել է: Manchester Manchester University Press 2020
• Խորագրեր: History of medicine; Medical sociology; Social & cultural history; Personal & public health; balance; selfhood; medicine; politics; health governance
• Առցանց հասանելիություն: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Ամփոփում

Concepts of 'balance' have been central to modern politics, medicine and society. Yet, while many health, environmental and social challenges are discussed globally in terms of imbalances in biological, social and ecological systems, strategies for addressing modern excesses and deficiencies have focused almost exclusively on the agency of the individual. Balancing the Self explores the diverse ways in which balanced and unbalanced selfhoods have been subject to construction, intervention and challenge across the long twentieth century. Through original chapters on subjects as varied as obesity control, fatigue and the regulation of work, and the physiology of exploration in extreme conditions, the volume analyses how concepts of balance and rhetorics of empowerment and responsibility have historically been used for a variety of purposes, by a diversity of political and social agencies. Historicising present-day concerns, as well as uncovering the previously hidden interests of the past, this volume's wide-ranging discussions of health governance, subjectivity and balance will be of interest to historians of medicine, sociologists, social policy analysts, and social and political historians alike.

Ֆիզիկական նկարագրություն

1 electronic resource (368 p.)

ISBN

9781526132123

Հասանելի

Open Access