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The New Public Health : Discourses, Knowledges, Strategies.
Title:
The New Public Health : Discourses, Knowledges, Strategies.
Author:
Petersen, Alan.
ISBN:
9781446264416
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (227 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - The New Public Health: A New Morality? -- Chapter 2 - Epidemiology: Governing by Numbers -- Chapter 3 - The 'Healthy' Citizen -- Chapter 4 - Risk Discourse and 'The Environment' -- Chapter 5 - The 'Healthy' City -- Chapter 6 - The Duty to Participate -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
Petersen and Lupton focus critically on the new public health, assessing its implications for the concepts of self, embodiment and citizenship. They argue that the new public health is used as a source of moral regulation and for distinguishing between self and other. They also explore the implications of modernist belief in the power of science and the ability of experts to solve problems through rational administrative means that underpin the strategies and rhetoric of the new public health.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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