Book ID: CBB768745437

Balancing the self: Medicine, politics and the regulation of health in the twentieth century (2020)

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Jackson, Mark (Editor)
Moore, Martin D. (Editor)
Cantor, David (Editor)


Manchester University Press


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 368
Language: English

Many health, environmental, and social challenges across the globe – from diabetes to climate change – are regularly discussed in terms of imbalances in biological, ecological, and social systems. Yet, as contributions to this collection demonstrate, while the pressures of modernity have long been held to be pathogenic, strategies for addressing modern excesses and deficiencies of bodies and minds have frequently focused on the agency of the individual, self-knowledge, and individual choices. This volume explores how concepts of ‘balance’ have been central to modern politics, medicine, and society, analysing 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, Balancing the self explores how the mechanisms and meanings of balance have been framed historically. Together, contributions examine the positive narratives that have been attached to the ideals and practices of ‘self-help’, the diverse agencies historically involved in cultivating new ‘balanced’ selves, and the extent to which rhetorics of empowerment and responsibility have been used for a variety of purposes, from disciplining bodies to cutting social security. With contributions from leading and emerging scholars such as Dorothy Porter, Alex Mold, Vanessa Heggie, Chris Millard, and Natasha Feiner, Balancing the self generates new insights into emerging fields of health governance, subjectivity, and balance.

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Authors & Contributors
Karissa R. Patton
Marilisa Poci
Gaudillière, Jean-Paul
Dishman, Eric
Feinsilver, Julie M.
Paolo Nucci
Concepts
Health care
Medicine and society
Medicine and politics
Public health
Health policy
Medicine
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
Early modern
Modern
Medieval
Places
Italy
United States
Philadelphia, PA
Alberta, Canada
Genoa (Italy)
Cuba
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