Foucault, health and medicine / edited by Alan Petersen and Robin Bunton ; foreword by Bryan S. Turner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Petersen, Alan R., 1953-

Bunton, Robin, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foucault, Michel--Contributions in social medicine.

Foucault, Michel.

Social medicine.

Medicine--Philosophy.

Medicine.

Human body--Social aspects.

Human body.

Medical policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (526 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The reception of Michel Foucault's work in the social sciences and humanities has been phenomenal. Foucault's concepts and methodology have encouraged new approaches to old problems and opened up new lines of enquiry. This book assesses the contribution of Foucault's work to research and thinking in the area of health and medicine, and shows how key researchers in the sociology of health and illness are currently engaging with his ideas. Foucault, Health and Medicine explores such important issues as: Foucault's concept of 'discourse', the critique of the 'medicalization' thesis,

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Foreword; INTRODUCTION; SITUATING FOUCAULT: THE THEORY OF POWER; FOUCAULT AND THE SOCIOLOGY OF THE BODY; RISK SOCIETY AND CONTEMPORARY POLITICS: EVALUATING FOUCAULT; REFERENCES; Acknowledgements; Introduction; REFERENCES; Part I Fabricating Foucault; Chapter 1 Foucault and the sociology of health and illness; INTRODUCTION; MADNESS; BIRTH; DISCIPLINE; HISTORY; CONCLUSION; NOTE; REFERENCES; Chapter 2 Is there life after Foucault?; INTRODUCTION: THE FAR SIDE OF FOUCAULT; TEXTS AND FRAMES; FOUCAULT'S ONTOLOGY OF DISCOURSE; FOUCAULT'S ONTOLOGY OF THE BODY

FOUCAULT'S ONTOLOGY OF THE SELFTHE ONTOLOGY OF THE TF POSITION; Discourse, knowledge and power; The body; The self; FRAMING THE TEXT: THE DISCHARGE; FINAL FRAME: AFTER FOUCAULT?; REFERENCES; Part II Discourses of health and medicine; Chapter 3 Mental health, criminality and the human sciences; INTRODUCTION: LAW AND PSYCHIATRY; SEPARATING PRACTICES: TECHNIQUES OF CALCULATION; SEPARATING PERSONALITY; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 4 At risk of maladjustment; HISTORIES OF THE PRESENT; THE HISTORY OF A PERSONALITY; THE KINDERGARTEN; THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC

GENDER AND TEMPERAMENTCONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 5 Foucault and the medicalisation critique; INTRODUCTION; THE ORTHODOX MEDICALISATION CRITIQUE; FOUCAULT AND MEDICALISATION; CRITIQUES OF THE FOUCAULDIAN PERSPECTIVE; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; REFERENCES; Part III The body, the self; Chapter 6 Is health education good for you?; INTRODUCTION; BIO-POWER: THE CONCEPT; HEALTH EDUCATION AS BIO-POWER; BIO-POLITICS: PARTICIPATION AND THE MANAGEMENT OF THE SOCIAL BODY3; ANATOMO-POLITICS: LEARNING TO BE A HEALTHY CITIZEN; IS HEALTH EDUCATION GOOD FOR YOU?; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Chapter 7 Bodies at riskBACKGROUND; FOUCAULT AND HRT; THE POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMAN; RISK AND RESPONSIBILITY; MEDICALISATION; SEX AND THE BODY IN DISCOURSES ON HRT; FURTHER THOUGHTS; NOTES; REFERENCES; Chapter 8 Foucault, embodiment and gendered subjectivities; THE SELF AS WORK OF ART; BEYOND THE CLASSICAL AND MODERN; FRAGMENTED SUBJECT POSITIONS; TWO FOUCAULTS? THE DOCILE VERSUS THE ACTIVE SELF; MEDICALISATION AND OBJECTIFICATION OF BODIES; THE HYSTERICAL BODY; TRUTH CONSTRUCTION AROUND THE STARVING BODY; IMPLICATIONS FOR TRUTH CONTESTATION; FOUCAULT AND POLITICAL PRACTICE; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES

Part IV GovernmentalityChapter 9 Of health and statecraft; FOUCAULT AND 'REACTIVE' CONCEPTIONS OF HEALTH POLICY; PROBLEMATISATION AND GOVERNMENTALITY; GOVERNMENTALITY AND HEALTH POLICY; Theme of population; Theme of a right to health; THE ESSENTIAL INDETERMINACY OF HEALTH POLICY; LIBERALISM AND NEO-LIBERALISM; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 10 Risk, governance and the new public health; THE CONCEPT OF RISK IN SOCIOLOGY; RISK AS GOVERNANCE; HEALTH PROMOTION AND THE PRODUCTION OF THE 'AT RISK' SELF; SELF-MANAGEMENT OF RISK; EXPERTISE AND THE ILLUSION OF ULTIMATE SECURITY; CONCLUSION; NOTE

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-32560-0

9786611325602

1-134-74547-8

0-203-00534-1

9780203005347

OCLC:

70763272