Foucault, Health and Medicine
- London Routledge 1997
- 256p
includes index and biblioraphy
Part I Fabricating Foucault 1 Foucault and the sociology of health and illness: a prismatic reading 15 David Armstrong 2 Is there life after Foucault? Texts, frames and differends Nick J. Fox Part II Discourses or health and medicine 3 Mental health, criminality and the human sciences David McCallum 4 At risk of maladjustment: the problem of child mental health 74 Deborah Tyler 5 Foucault and the medicalisation critique Deborah Lupton Part III The body, the self 6 Is health education good for you? Re-thinking health education through the concept of bio-power 113 Denise Gastaldo 7 Bodies at risk: sex, surveillance and hormone replacement therapy 134 Jennifer Hording 8 Foucault, embodiment and gendered subjectivities: the case of voluntary self-starvation 151 Liz Eckermann Part IV Governmentality 9 Of health and statecraft 173 Thomas Osborne 10 Risk, governance and the new public health 189 Alan Petersen 11 Governing the risky self: how to become healthy, wealthy and wise 207 Sarah Nettleton 12 Popular health, advanced liberalism and Good Housekeeping magazine 223 Robin Bunion