B. J. Brown, Sally Baker

Responsible Citizens

Individuals, Health and Policy under Neoliberalism

• Broschiertes Buch

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 377g
• ISBN-13: 9781783080458
• ISBN-10: 1783080450
• Artikelnr.: 39308133

Autorenporträt

B. J. Brown and Sally Baker

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