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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2021] This can’t be healthy. Conflicts About Health, 1850-2000
DESCRIPTION:In the past decades, to be healthy has meant by far more than simply not to be sick. Firstly, health has become synonymous with successful self-government and thus a crucial precondition for social recognition. In contrast, illness has increasingly been moralized as a consequence of problematic conduct, of ignorance, stubbornness, and deficient self-control. Secondly, health is more than the absence of disease but has since the mid-20th century been described as a »state of complete bodily, mental and social well-being« (WHO 1948). What exactly this meant was contested permanently. Health therefore functions as an ideal that cannot be fully achieved while at the same time fostering a broad range of techniques of the self. The panel addresses this topic from two angles. On the one hand, the papers analyze conflicting interpretations of what to be healthy meant in different historical contexts. On the other hand, they examine the function of health as a moral imperative that can hardly be contested. In both respects, historiographical investigation has primarily focused on productive bodies – from the human motor of the decades around 1900 to the disabled veterans of the world wars and the athletic and efficient managers of contemporary history. And there is no doubt that the capacity to work (productively) has played a pivotal role in almost every regime of health of the past 150 years. However, starting from the observation that social order is not only produced through work, the panel seeks to broaden the perspective. We analyze conflicts about health in the context of consumption and leisure, in debates on welfare and life quality, and in depictions of persons who don’t work (anymore). And we show how, since the mid-19th century, an ideal of health was established that not only required a healthy body but a subject that is well-informed and self-governed in its pursuit of well-being and happiness.
Der Beitrag This can’t be healthy. Conflicts About Health, 1850-2000 erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2021.
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