Balancing the Self: Medicine, Politics and the Regulation of Health in the Twentieth Century Contributor(s): Jackson, Mark (Editor), Moore, Martin D. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1526132133 ISBN-13: 9781526132130 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $43.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Social History - Medical | History |
Series: Social Histories of Medicine |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.6" W x 8.6" (1.25 lbs) 368 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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. |