The New Public Health: Discourses, Knowledges, Strategies

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SAGE, 1996 - Social Science - 208 pages
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Petersen and Lupton focus critically on the new public health, assessing its implications for the concepts of self, embodiment and citizenship. They argue that the new public health is used as a source of moral regulation and for distinguishing between self and other. They also explore the implications of modernist belief in the power of science and the ability of experts to solve problems through rational administrative means that underpin the strategies and rhetoric of the new public health.

 

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Contents

governing by numbers
27
The healthy citizen
61
Risk discourse and the environment
89
The healthy city
120
The duty to participate
146
Conclusion
174
Index
199
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About the author (1996)

Alan Petersen is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Murdoch University in Western Australia. His recent publications include The New Public Health: Health and Self in the Age of Risk (co-written with Deborah Lupton), Foucalut, Health and Medicine (co-edited with Robin Bunton) and Health Matters: Sociology of Illness, Prevention and Care (co-edited with Charles Waddell).

Deborah Lupton is SHARP professor in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW Sydney, working in the Center for Social Research in Health and the Social Policy Research Center and leading the Vitalities Lab. She is the author/co-author of 17 books, the latest of which are Digital Sociology (Routledge, 2015), The Quantified Self (Polity, 2016), Digital Health (Routledge, 2017), Fat, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2018), and Data Selves (Polity, 2019). She is a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and holds an honorary doctor of social science degree awarded by the University of Copenhagen.

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TitleThe New Public Health: Discourses, Knowledges, Strategies
The New Public Health: Health and Self in the Age of Risk
AuthorsAlan R. Petersen (Ph. D.), Deborah Lupton
Editionreprint
PublisherSAGE, 1996
ISBN076195404X, 9780761954040
Length208 pages
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Health & Fitness / Health Care Issues
Medical / Public Health
Social Science / Social Work
  
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