‘Everyday Health’, Embodiment, and Selfhood Since 1950

Hannah Froom is an independent early career scholar. Tracey Loughran is a Professor of History at the University of Essex Kate Mahoney is a Research Manager at Healthwatch Essex, and a Community Fellow at the University of Essex. Daisy Payling is an Engagement Officer at Queen Mary University of London.

'Everyday Health functions as a fascinating collection of essays, but also as a practical guide and a manifesto for new ways of doing the history of medicine and health… Above all else, though, this volume is a call for historians of health to think more deeply about how multiple selves, including themselves, make up the histories that surround us.' — Alex Mold, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine‘a contribution with something to say to almost any historian of the last seventy-five years, to myriad colleagues in other disciplines, and to anyone working in ‘everyday health’ today’— Fred Cooper, University of Bristol

• Introduction: ‘Everyday health’, embodiment, and selfhood since 1950 – Hannah Froom, Tracey Loughran, Kate Mahoney, and Daisy PaylingPart I: Experiential expertiseIntroduction – Hannah Froom and Tracey Loughran1 Alex Comfort’s The Joy of Sex and the tensions of liberal sexpertise – Ben Mechen2 ‘Two more calls, one in tears …’: emotion, labour, and ethics of care at the Calgary Birth Control Association, 1970-79 – Karissa Robyn Patton3 Expertise and experience in the Greek feminist birth control movement, c. 1974-86 – Evangelia Chordaki4 Migration, kinship, and ‘everyday theorising’: Black British women’s narratives of genetic diagnosis in the postwar National Health Service – Grace RedheadPart II: Sites and spacesIntroduction – Tracey Loughran5 Writing everyday life into law: the ‘household duties test’, disabled women, social security, and assumed normality – Gareth Millward6 Friendship, mutual aid, and activism in British transfeminine spaces, 1968-85 – Fleur MacInnes7 A private matter? The Brook Advisory Centre and young people’s everyday sexual and reproductive health in the 1960s-80s – Caroline Rusterholz8 Queering the agony aunt: reusing and adapting a public engagement activity for different audiences – Daisy PaylingPart III: Mass media and networks of communicationIntroduction – Daisy Payling and Tracey Loughran9 ‘Thirty years behind England’? Framing ‘natural’ childbirth in postwar Canada – Whitney Wood10 ‘I started a new life when I joined Gemma’: disability, community, and sexuality in Gemma newsletters, 1978-2000 – Beckie Rutherford11 Talk shows and ‘tanorexia’: motherhood and ‘sunbed addiction’ on British television in the 1990s – Fabiola Creed12 ‘Having been there … I know how hard it is’: relatability and ordinariness in twenty-first century British clean eating – Louise MorganPart IV: Subjectivity and intersubjectivityIntroduction – Kate Mahoney and Tracey Loughran13 Girlhood menstrual management and the ‘culture of concealment’ in postwar Britain – Hannah Froom 14 Is sex good for you? Risk, reward, and responsibility for young women in the late 1980s – Rosie Gahnstrom, Lucy Robinson, and Rachel Thomson15 ‘What your generation probably don’t understand is …’: exploring intergenerational dynamics in oral history – Kate Mahoney16 Cultivating vulnerability: power and the emotional ethics of oral history practice beyond the interview – Tracey Loughran 17 … and breathe: style narratives at home March 2020-March 2021 – Carol Tulloch