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Foucault, health and medicine / edited by Alan Petersen and Robin Bunton ; foreword by Bryan S. Turner.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social medicine.
- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
- Foucault, Michel.
- Medicine--Philosophy.
- Medicine.
- Human body--Social aspects.
- Human body.
- Medical policy.
- Sociology, Medical.
- Health.
- Health Policy.
- Philosophy, Medical.
- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984--Contributions in social medicine.
- Medical Subjects:
- Sociology, Medical.
- Health.
- Health Policy.
- Philosophy, Medical.
- Local Subjects:
- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984--Contributions in social medicine.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 256 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
- Summary:
- "Foucault, Health and Medicine" shows how key researchers in the sociology of health and illness are currently engaging with Michel Foucault's ideas. The book's twelve chapters explore: Foucault's concept of discourse; the critique of the medicalization thesis; analysis of the body and the self; Foucault's concepts for feminist research on embodiment and gendered subjectivities; the application of Foucault's notion of governmentality to the analysis of health policy, health promotion and the consumption of health. Offering a state-of-the-art overview of Foucaludian scholarship in the area of health and medicine, this volume will provide a key reference for those working in the areas of medical sociology, health policy, health promotion and feminist studies.
- Contents:
- Foreword : from governmentality to risk, some reflections on Foucault's contribution to medical sociology / Bryan S. Turner
- Introduction : Foucault's medicine / Robin Bunton and Alan Petersen
- Foucault and the sociology of health and illness : a prismatic reading / David Armstrong
- Is there life after Foucault? : texts, frames, and differends / Nick J. Fox
- Mental health, criminality and the human sciences / David McCallum
- At risk of maladjustment : the problem of child mental health / Deborah Tyler
- Foucault and the medicalisation critique / Deborah Lupton
- Is health education good for you? : re-thinking health education through the concept of bio-power / Denise Gastaldo
- Bodies at risk : sex, surveillance and hormone replacement therapy / Jennifer Harding
- Foucault, embodiment and gendered subjectivities : the case of voluntary self-starvation / Liz Eckermann
- Of health and statecraft / Thomas Osborne
- Risk, governance and the new public health / Alan Petersen
- Governing the risky self : how to become healthy, wealthy and wise / Sarah Nettleton
- Popular health, advanced liberalism and Good housekeeping magazine / Robin Bunton.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0415151775
- 9780415151771
- 0415151783
- 9780415151788
- OCLC:
- 35450549
- Online:
- Publisher description
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