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Balancing the self : medicine, politics and the regulation of health in the twentieth century / / edited by Mark Jackson and Martin Moore



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Autore: Jackson Mark Visualizza persona
Titolo: Balancing the self : medicine, politics and the regulation of health in the twentieth century / / edited by Mark Jackson and Martin Moore Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2020
©2020
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s)
Disciplina: 362.1964620094109045
Soggetto topico: Medical policy - Great Britain - History - 20th century
Medical care - Great Britain - History - 20th century
Self-care, Health - Great Britain
History Of Medicine
MEDICAL / History
Soggetto non controllato: balance
selfhood
medicine
politics
health governance
Persona (resp. second.): MooreMartin D.
JacksonMark
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Balancing the self  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-5261-3214-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910404144903321
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Serie: Social histories of medicine.