How do cultures of self-quantification intersect with the modern state, particularly in relation to medical provision and health promotion? Here I explore the ways in which British practices and representations of body weight and weight management ignored or interacted with the National Health Service between 1948 and 2004. Through the lens of overweight, I examine health citizenship in the context of universal health provision funded from general taxation, and track attitudes toward “overweight” once its health implications and medical costs affected a public service as well as individual bodies and households. Looking at professional and popular discourses of overweight and obesity, I map the persistence of a highly individual culture of dietary and weight self-management in postwar Britain, and assess the degree to which it was challenged by a new measure of “obesity” – the body mass index – and by visions of an NHS burdened and even threatened by the increasing overweight of the citizens it was created to serve.

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称重我们所有人？英国 NHS 肥胖的量化和文化反应

自我量化的文化如何与现代国家相交，尤其是在医疗供应和健康促进方面？在这里，我探讨了 1948 年至 2004 年期间英国的体重和体重管理实践和表现如何忽视或与国家卫生服务互动。通过超重的镜头，我在由一般人资助的全民健康服务的背景下研究健康公民一旦“超重”的健康影响和医疗费用影响到公共服务以及个人身体和家庭，就会跟踪对“超重”的态度。着眼于超重和肥胖的专业和流行话语，我描绘了战后英国高度个人化的饮食和体重自我管理文化的持续存在，