The New Public Health: Discourses, Knowledges, Strategies

The New Public Health: Discourses, Knowledges, Strategies
ISBN-10
076195404X
ISBN-13
9780761954040
Series
The New Public Health
Category
Social Science
Pages
208
Language
English
Published
1996
Publisher
SAGE
Authors
Alan R. Petersen, Deborah Lupton

Description

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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