Health and illness in the neoliberal era in Europe / edited by Jonathan Ga,e. Mario Cardano, Angela Genova.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gabe, Jonathan, editor.

Cardano, Mario, editor.

Genova, Angela, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health--Political aspects.

Public health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 200 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, England : Emerald Publishing, [2021]

Summary:

Health and illness in the Neoliberal Era in Europediscusses the impact of neoliberalism on public health and the social construction of health and illness in Europe, analysing case studies at a European and national level.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication Page

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

List of Contributors

About the Editors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

References

Inequities

Chapter One-Neoliberal Epidemics: Etiology, A Bit of History, and a View from Ground Zero

1. Introduction: Why Neoliberal Epidemics?

2. The Analytical Indispensability of Neoliberalism

3. Observations from Ground Zero: Austerity in the UK Post-2010

4. Conclusion: Future Directions

Chapter Two-Health Inequalities in Europe: Policy Matters in the Neoliberal Era

1. Introduction

2. Theoretical Framework. Health Inequalities in Europe: Places Matter

3. Inequalities in Healthy Life Expectancy for the Older People in Europe

4. Data and Analysis

4.1. Changes in HLY65+ within Each Member State and Welfare Regimes

4.2. Correlation between Income Inequality and HLY65+

5. Conclusion: Policy Matters in the Neoliberal Era

Chapter Three-Economic Crisis, Young Adults and Health in Spain

2. Methodology

3. Results

3.2. Mental Health

4. Conclusions

Self-responsibilisation

Chapter Four-Citizenship, Neoliberalism and Healthcare

2. Healthcare, Neoliberalism and Citizenship

3. Neoliberalism and Healthcare in the Czech Republic

4. From Neoliberal Citizenship to Citizenship in the Neoliberal Era

4.1. Patient Compliance with Neoliberalism

4.2. Patient Appropriation of Neoliberalism

4.3. Patient Resistance to Neoliberalism

5. Discussion and Conclusions

Bibliography

Chapter Five-Crowdsourcing in Medicine in the Neoliberal Era

1. Crowdsourcing in Medicine

1.1. The Conceptual Background

1.2. Experiences and Platforms for Crowdsourcing in Medicine.

2. Bottom-Up and Top-Down: The Neoliberal Roots of Crowdsourcing in Medicine

3. The Client, Citizen and Expert Patient, and the Crowd

4. Conclusions: Data Philanthropy and the Neoliberal Form of Participation

Chapter Six-Adjusting Life to Illness or Illness to Life? Reflections on Children's Competences in the Neoliberal Era

1. Children and Health from the Neoliberal Perspective

2. Children and Adults in the Process of Diagnosing Chronic Illness

3. Children and Strategies of Illness Management: The Contextual Nature of Competences

4. Conclusion: How to Adjust Illness to Life, Despite Adults

Chapter Seven-Neoliberalism and Illness Narratives: The Intertwined Logics of Choice and Care

1. The Place for Illness Narratives in the Neoliberal Era

2. The Logic of Choice and the Logic of Care

3. Research Question and Methodology

4. The Patient's Work

5. The Family Caregiver's Work

6. Conclusions

Cost Containment Processes

Chapter Eight-The Italian NHS Between Latent Paradoxes and Problematic Sustainability

1. The Three Phases of the Evolution of the Italian NHS

2. First Paradox: A Public Healthcare System Between De-Financing and Creeping Privatisation

3. Second Paradox: Corporatisation without a Market and Leopard-Like Managerialisation

4. Third Paradox: A Schizophrenic Regionalism Between Devolution and Re-Centralisation

5. Fourth Paradox: One of the Highest Levels of Performance in the World, Despite Everything

6. Conclusions: What Future Sustainability is There for the Italian NHS?

Chapter Nine-The Neoliberal Politics of Otherness in Italian Psychiatric Care: Notes on a Team Ethnography in Six Acute Psychiatric Wards

1. Prologue: Psychiatric Care in Italy Before the Psychiatric Reform.

2. Psychiatric Care in Italy after 1978: The Outcome of De-Institutionalisation

3. Psychiatric Care in Italy Today

4. Two Persisting Politics of Otherness Emerging from a Team Ethnography

4.1. Inappropriate Hospitalisation

4.2. Extreme Physical Restraint: Mechanical and Anaesthesiological Restraint

The Construction of 'Unmanageable Disruptive Behaviour'. With the expression 'construction of unmanageable disruptive behaviour' we refer to the social process occurring in all acute wards that is likely to lead towards the use of extreme physical restrai

The Heterogeneity of Extreme Physical Restraint Techniques. 'Implicit coercion logic' (Gariglio, 2018, pp. 81-101) is a key feature of coercive organisations: anyone involved in any particular interaction knows that staff can use coercion when the situati

Mechanical Restraint Versus Anaesthesiological Restraint. Extreme physical restraint techniques aim to take control of the embodied otherness of psychiatric patients. The first technique is mechanical restraint. In Italy, it has persisted over the years o

5. Conclusion

Chapter Ten-Some Symptoms of Neoliberalisation in the Institutional Arrangement of Maternity Services in Russia

2. Changing Health Services and Professions in the Context of Neoliberal Reforms

3. Background to Maternity Care in Russia

4. Methodology

5. Institutional Contradictions in the Field of Maternity Care

6. Organisational Constraints and Fragmentation of Maternity Care

7. Conclusion

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

1-83909-119-3

OCLC:

1223094635