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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. Chapters on diabetes, 'sensible drinking', obesity control, dietetic regulation, fatigue, heart disease, physical and emotional extremes, Parkinson's disease and other conditions understood in terms of disordered balance analyse the ways in which 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", 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 provision.… (more)
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CONTENTS:
Introduction: Balancing the self in the twentieth century / Mark Jackson and Martin D. Moore
Balance and the 'good' diabetic in Britain, c.1900-60 / Martin D. Moore
From the alcoholic to the sensible drinker: Alcohol health education campaigns in England / Alex Mold
'Look after yourself': Visualizing obesity as a public health concern in the 1970s and 1980s Britain / Jane Hand
Self-help and self-promotion: Dietary advice and agency in North America and Britain / Nicos Kefalas
Your life in your hands: Teaching 'relaxed living' in post-war Britain / Ayesha Nathoo
Pilot fatigue and the regulation of airline schedules in post-war Britain / Natasha Feiner
Extreme acts: Narratives of balance and moderation at the limits of human performance / Vanessa Heggie
Self-help, marriage guidance and the making of the midlife crisis / Mark Jackson
Balancing contested meanings of creativity and pathology in Parkinson's Disease / Dorothy Porter
Conclusion: Balance, Malleability and anthropology: Historical contexts / Chris Millard