Foucault, Health and Medicine (Paperback, New)

The reception of Michel Foucault's work in the social sciences and humanities has been phenomenal. Foucault's concepts and methodology have encouraged new approaches to old problems and opened up new lines of enquiry. By assessing the contribution of Foucault's work to research and thinking in the area of health and medicine, this book shows how key researchers in the sociology of health and illness are currently engaging with his ideas.
Foucault, Health and Medicine consists of a foreword and twelve chapters some of which explore; Foucault's concept of 'discourse'; the critique of the 'medicalization' thesis; analysis of the body and the self; Foucault's concepts for feminist research on embodiment and gendered subjectivities; the application of Foucault's notion of governmentality to the analysis of health policy, health promotion, and the consumption of health.
Foucault, Health and Medicine offers a 'state of the art' overview of Foucaldian scholarship in the area of health and medicine. It will provide a key reference for both students and researchers working in the areas of medical sociology, health policy, health promotion and feminist studies.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 1997
First published:	1997
Editors:	Alan Petersen • Robin Bunton
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	280
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-15178-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
LSN:	0-415-15178-3
Barcode:	9780415151788

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