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Imprint:	London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
Description:	1 online resource (xxi, 256 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Foucault, Michel -- Contributions in social medicine. Foucault, Michel, -- 1926-1984 Foucault, Michel Foucault, Michel, -- 1926-1984. Social medicine. Medicine -- Philosophy. Human body -- Social aspects. Medical policy. Sociology, Medical. Health. Philosophy, Medical. Health Policy. Human body -- Social aspects. Medical policy. Medicine -- Philosophy. Social medicine.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11144873

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Other authors / contributors:	Petersen, Alan R., 1953- Bunton, Robin, 1954-
ISBN:	0203005341 9780203005347 9781134745470 1134745478 1281325600 9781281325600 9786611325602 6611325603 0415151775 0415151783 9780415151771 9780415151788
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
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,
Other form:	Print version: Foucault, health and medicine. London ; New York : Routledge, 1997

Table of 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.

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