Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- Foreword: From governmentality to risk, some reflections on Foucault's contribution to medical sociology -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Foucault's medicine -- Part I: Fabricating Foucault -- 1. Foucault and the sociology of health and illness: a prismatic reading -- Introduction -- Madness -- Birth -- Discipline -- History -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 2. Is there life after Foucault? Texts, frames and differends -- Introduction: The Far Side of Foucault -- Texts and Frames -- Foucault's Ontology of Discourse -- Foucault's Ontology of the Body -- Foucault's Ontology of the Self -- The Ontology of the TF Position -- Discourse, knowledge and power -- The body -- The self -- Framing the Text: The Discharge -- Final Frame: After Foucault? -- References -- Part II: Discourses of health and medicine -- 3. Mental health, criminality and the human sciences -- Introduction: Law and Psychiatry -- Separating Practices: Techniques of Calculation -- Separating Personality -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 4. At risk of maladjustment: the problem of child mental health -- Histories of the Present -- The History of a Personality -- The Kindergarten -- The Children's Hospital Psychiatric Clinic -- Gender and Temperament -- Conclusion -- References -- 5. Foucault and the medicalisation critique -- Introduction -- The Orthodox Medicalisation Critique -- Foucault and Medicalisation -- Critiques of the Foucauldian Perspective -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Part III: The body, the self -- 6. Is health education good for you? Re-thinking health education through the concept of bio-power -- Introduction -- Bio-Power: The Concept -- Health Education as Bio-Power.

Bio-Politics: Participation and the Management of the Social Body -- Anatomo-Politics: Learning to be a Healthy Citizen -- Is Health Education Good for You? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7. Bodies at risk: sex, surveillance and hormone replacement therapy -- Background -- Foucault and HRT -- The Postmenopausal Woman -- Risk and Responsibility -- Medicalisation -- Sex and the Body in Discourses on HRT -- Further Thoughts -- Notes -- References -- 8. Foucault, embodiment and gendered subjectivities: the case of voluntary self-starvation -- The Self as Work of Art -- Beyond the Classical and Modern -- Fragmented Subject Positions -- Two Foucaults? The Docile versus the Active Self -- Medicalisation and Objectification of Bodies -- The Hysterical Body -- Truth Construction Around the Starving Body -- Implications for Truth Contestation -- Foucault and Political Practice -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IV: Governmentality -- 9. Of health and statecraft -- Foucault and 'Reactive' Conceptions of Health Policy -- Problematisation and Governmentality -- Governmentality and Health Policy -- Theme of population -- Theme of a right to health -- The Essential Indeterminacy of Health Policy -- Liberalism and Neo-Liberalism -- Conclusion -- References -- 10. Risk, governance and the new public health -- The Concept of Risk in Sociology -- Risk as Governance -- Health Promotion and the Production of the 'At Risk' Self -- Self-Management of Risk -- Expertise and the Illusion of Ultimate Security -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 11. Governing the risky self: how to become healthy, wealthy and wise -- The Government of Subjects -- Health, Risk and the Autonomous Self -- Power and Change -- Notes -- References -- 12. Popular health, advanced liberalism and Good Housekeeping magazine -- Foucault and the Analysis of Contemporary Health Care.

Magazines and Popular Health -- Magazine Medicine -- Health Commodities -- Care of the Self -- Summary -- Notes -- References -- Index.