{"product_id":"balancing-the-self-medicine-politics-and-the-regulation-of-health-in-the-twentieth-century-9781526132130","title":"Balancing the Self: Medicine, Politics and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough original chapters on subjects as varied as obesity control, fatigue and the regulation of work, and the physiology of exploration in extreme conditions, \u003ci\u003eBalancing the self\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eBalancing the self\u003c\/i\u003e generates new insights into emerging fields of health governance, subjectivity, and balance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBalancing The Self\u003c\/i\u003e provides a detailed study of the abstract concept of ‘balance’ in individual health. Each chapter provides an interesting and well-researched case study into the changing understandings and approaches to balance. Furthermore, the volume itself is well-balanced, providing a mixture of medical and political history, with an even focus across the century. The strength of the individual chapters proves this work to be useful to any scholar with an interest in selfhood and twentieth-century Britain.\u003cbr\u003eLouise Morgan, \u003ci\u003eSocial History of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: balancing the self in the twentieth century – Mark Jackson and Martin D. Moore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Configuring balance\u003cbr\u003e2 Balance and the ‘good’ diabetic in Britain, \u003ci\u003ec\u003c\/i\u003e.1900-1960 – Martin D. Moore\u003cbr\u003e3 From the alcoholic to the sensible drinker: alcohol health education campaigns in England – Alex Mold \u003cbr\u003e4 `Look After Yourself’: visualising obesity as a public health concern in 1970s and 1980s Britain – Jane Hand \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Regulating imbalance\u003cbr\u003e5 Self-help and self-promotion: dietary advice and agency in North America and Britain – Nicos Kefalas\u003cbr\u003e6 Your life in your hands: teaching `relaxed living’ in post-war Britain – Ayesha Nathoo\u003cbr\u003e7 Pilot fatigue and the regulation of airline schedules in post-war Britain – Natasha Feiner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Reconfiguring balance\u003cbr\u003e8 Extreme acts: narratives of balance and moderation at the limits of human performance – Vanessa Heggie \u003cbr\u003e9 Self-help, marriage guidance and the making of the midlife crisis – Mark Jackson \u003cbr\u003e10 Balancing contested meanings of creativity and pathology in Parkinson’s Disease – Dorothy Porter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11 Conclusion: balance, malleability and anthropology: historical contexts – Chris Millard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040995869015,"sku":"9781526132130","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526132130.jpg?v=1750948531","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/balancing-the-self-medicine-politics-and-the-regulation-of-health-in-the-twentieth-century-9781526132130","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}