Governing how we care : contesting community and defining difference in U.S. public health programs / Susan J. Shaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaw, Susan J. (Susan Judith)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities--Medical care--United States.

Minorities.

Community health services--United States.

Community health services.

United States--Social policy--21st century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : Temple University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As local governments and organizations assume more responsibility for ensuring the public health, identity politics play an increasing yet largely unexamined role in public and policy attitudes toward local problems. In Governing How We Care, medical anthropologist Susan Shaw examines the relationship between government and citizens using case studies of needle exchange and Welfare-to-Work programs to illustrate the meanings of cultural difference, ethnicity, and inequality in health care.Drawing on ethnographic research conducted over six years in a small New England ci

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Governmentality of Community Health; Part I: Technologies of Citizenship and Difference; 2. Community Health Advocates: The Professionalization of "Like Helping Like"; 3. Neoliberalism at Work: Contemporary Scenarios of Governmental Reforms in Public Health and Social Work; 4. Technologies of Culturally Appropriate Health Care; Part II: Technologies of Prevention and Boundaries of Citizenship: Drug Use, Research, and Public Health; 5. "I Always Use Bleach": The Production and Circulation of Risk and Norms in Drug Research

6. Syringe Exchange as a Practice of GoverningConclusion; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613532015

9781439906842

143990684X

9781280128134

1280128135

OCLC:

781786016