Foucault, Health and Medicine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foucault, Health and Medicine write by Robin Bunton. This book was released on 2002-01-08. Foucault, Health and Medicine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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, the analysis of the body and the self, Foucault's concept of 'bio-power' in the analysis of health education, the implications of Foucault's ideas for feminist research on embodiment and gendered subjectivities, the application of Foucault's notion of governmentality to the analysis of health policy, health promotion, and the consumption of health. Foucault, Health and Medicine offers a `state of the art' overview of Foucaldian scholarship in the area of health and medicine. It will provide a key reference for both students and researchers working in the areas of medical sociology, health policy, health promotion and feminist studies.
Foucault, Health and Medicine
Foucault, Health and Medicine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foucault, Health and Medicine write by Alan R. Petersen. This book was released on 1997. Foucault, Health and Medicine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This 'state of the art' overview of Foucaldian scholarship in health and medicine assesses the profound impact of Foucault's work and shows how key researchers in the sociology of health and illness are currently engaging with his work.
The Feud of Language
The Feud of Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Feud of Language write by Thomas G. Pavel. This book was released on 1992-01. The Feud of Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Birth of the Clinic
The Birth of the Clinic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Birth of the Clinic write by Michel Foucault. This book was released on 2002-11-01. The Birth of the Clinic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Foucault's classic study of the history of medicine.
The Biopolitics of Lifestyle
The Biopolitics of Lifestyle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Biopolitics of Lifestyle write by Christopher Mayes. This book was released on 2015-12-22. The Biopolitics of Lifestyle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A growing sense of urgency over obesity at the national and international level has led to a proliferation of medical and non-medical interventions into the daily lives of individuals and populations. This work focuses on the biopolitical use of lifestyle to govern individual choice and secure population health from the threat of obesity. The characterization of obesity as a threat to society caused by the cumulative effect of individual lifestyles has led to the politicization of daily choices, habits and practices as potential threats. This book critically examines these unquestioned assumptions about obesity and lifestyle, and their relation to wider debates surrounding neoliberal governmentality, biopolitical regulation of populations, discipline of bodies, and the possibility of community resistance. The rationale for this book follows Michel Foucault’s approach of problematization, addressing the way lifestyle is problematized as a biopolitical domain in neoliberal societies. Mayes argues that in response to the threat of obesity, lifestyle has emerged as a network of disparate knowledges, relations and practices through which individuals are governed toward the security of the population’s health. Although a central focus is government health campaigns, this volume demonstrates that the network of lifestyle emanates from a variety of overlapping domains and disciplines, including public health, clinical medicine, media, entertainment, school programs, advertising, sociology and ethics. This book offers a timely critique of the continued interventions into the lives of individuals and communities by government agencies, private industries, medical and non-medical experts in the name of health and population security and will be of interests to students and scholars of critical international relations theory, health and bioethics and governmentality studies.
