In the 1970s, most Western nations began to shift the emphasis of
health care provision from treatment to prevention. While
originally motivated by the rise of lifestyle diseases, the
emergence of the new public health policy mainly involves a new way
to understand and structure the relationship between health
knowledge and individual action. The book investigates what
political rationality characterizes this new ambition in public
health policies to put knowledge into action in the hands of
individual citizens and how these policies adapt to the continuous
experience that citizens often do not listen. Based on a
Foucauldian framework, the genealogy demonstrates the new
governmentality in Danish and American public health policy, which
depends upon a specific politics of truth. Not only does public
health policy build on a large amount of scientific knowledge. It
also demands a change in the production and circulation of health
knowledge, which attempts to replace the usual 'ifs, buts and
maybes' of medical science with an action-minded public health
knowledge just telling people what to do.
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