Christopher Mayes

The Biopolitics of Lifestyle (eBook, ePUB)

Foucault, Ethics and Healthy Choices

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This work focuses on the biopolitical use of lifestyle to govern individual choice and secure population health from the threat of obesity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317382362
• Artikelnr.: 44477073

Autorenporträt

Christopher Mayes is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine (VELiM).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
The Lifestyle Problematic Chapter 1
Obesity, bioethics and the lifestyle dispositif Chapter 2
Lifestyle as Politics: Choice and Responsibility Chapter 3
Lifestyle as Health: Articulating an 'Urgent Need' Chapter 4
Lifestyle as Identity: Consumption and the Ethics of the Self Chapter 5
A Cacophony of Guidance: Hearing, Seeing and Judging Choices Chapter 6
Styles of Resistance: The Body, Counter
Conduct and Critique Chapter 7
Relations of Care: Restless and Endless Transformation Conclusion
Style, Solidarity and Security