B. J. Brown, Sally Baker

Responsible Citizens (eBook, PDF)

Individuals, Health and Policy under Neoliberalism

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Produktbeschreibung

The individual has never been more important in society - in almost every sphere of public and private life, the individual is sovereign. Yet the importance and apparent power assigned to the individual is not all that it seems. As 'Responsible Citizens' investigates via its UK-based case studies, this emphasis on the individual has gone hand in hand with a rise in subtle authoritarianism, which has insinuated itself into the government of the population. Whilst present throughout the public services, this authoritarianism is most conspicuous in the health and social welfare sectors, such that a kind of 'governance through responsibility' is today enforced upon the population.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857289131
• Artikelnr.: 49420209

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