Foucault, health and medicine

By:

Petersen, A

Contributor(s):

Bunton, R

Publication details: London : Routledge, 1997ISBN:

0415151783

Subject(s):

Contents:

Fabricating Foucault. Foucault & the sociology of health & illness : a prismatic reading ; Is there life after Foucault? texts, frames & differends ; Discourses of health & medicine ; Mental health, criminality & the human sciences ; At risk of maladjustment : the problem of child mental health ; Foucault & the medicalisation critique ; The body, the self ; Is health education good for you? re-thinking health education through the concept of bio-power ; Bodies at risk : sex, surveillance & hormone replacement therapy ; Foucault, embodiment & gendered subjectivities : the case of voluntary self-starvation ; Governmentality ; Of health & statecraft ; Risk, governance & the new public health ; Governing the risky self : how to become healthy, wealthy & wise ; Popular health, advanced liberalism & Good Housekeeping magazine

Summary: Assesses the contribution of Michel Foucault's work to research & thinking in the area of health & medicine, & shows how key researchers in the sociology of health & illness are currently engaging with his ideas.

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Book	David Adams Library (Royal Marsden) Shelves	WA31 PET (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		0000002363

Assesses the contribution of Michel Foucault's work to research & thinking in the area of health & medicine, & shows how key researchers in the sociology of health & illness are currently engaging with his ideas.

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