B. J. Brown, Sally Baker

Responsible Citizens

Individuals, Health and Policy under Neoliberalism

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Produktbeschreibung

'Responsible Citizens' reveals how rising emphasis on the individual has gone hand in hand with an increase in subtle authoritarianism - particularly within public services - such that a kind of 'governance through responsibility' is today being enforced upon the population.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 527g
• ISBN-13: 9780857284587
• ISBN-10: 0857284584
• Artikelnr.: 35709985

Autorenporträt

B. J. Brown is a professor of health communication at De Montfort University, Leicester. Sally Baker is a research fellow in the School of Social Sciences, Bangor University, Wales.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Individualism, Neoliberalism and the Imperatives of Personal Governance
3. Individualism in Healthcare
4. Enlisting, Measuring and Shaping the Individual in Healthcare Policy and Practice
5. Mental Health and Personal Responsibility
6. Responsibility in Therapy and the Therapeutic State
7. The Punitive Turn in Public Services: Coercing Responsibility
8. Thinking about Ourselves
9. Talking Citizenship into Being
References
Index