TY - BOOK ID - 78339195 TI - Neoliberal governance and health AU - Power, Elaine M AU - Polzer, Jessica PY - 2016 SN - 077359955X 0773599541 9780773599543 9780773599550 9780773547827 0773547827 9780773547834 0773547835 PB - Montreal Kingston London Chicago DB - UniCat KW - Medical care KW - Medical policy KW - Public health KW - Neoliberalism KW - Community health KW - Health services KW - Hygiene, Public KW - Hygiene, Social KW - Public health services KW - Public hygiene KW - Social hygiene KW - Health KW - Human services KW - Biosecurity KW - Health literacy KW - Medicine, Preventive KW - National health services KW - Sanitation KW - Neo-liberalism KW - Liberalism KW - Health care policy KW - Health policy KW - Medicine and state KW - Policy, Medical KW - Public health policy KW - State and medicine KW - Science and state KW - Social policy KW - Delivery of health care KW - Delivery of medical care KW - Health care KW - Health care delivery KW - Healthcare KW - Medical and health care industry KW - Medical services KW - Personal health services KW - Government policy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78339195 AB - Provoking urgent questions about the politics of health in the twenty-first century, this collection interrogates how neoliberal approaches to governance frame health and risk in ways that promote individual responsibility and the implications of such framings for the well-being of the collective. The essays examine a range of important issues, including childhood obesity, genetic testing, HPV vaccination, Aboriginal health, pandemic preparedness, environmental health, disability policy, aging, contingent work, and women’s access to social services. With specific attention to the Canadian context, contributors reveal how neoliberal practices and policies shape the health experiences of individuals, disadvantaged groups, and communities by cultivating self-discipline while further exposing to harm the lives and bodies of those already marginalized in consumer society. Building on the theoretical conceptualizations of power and government of French philosopher Michel Foucault, the case studies extend our understanding of the effects of neoliberal practices and policies in relation to social class, gender, racialized identity, colonization, and ability, and provide insight into how health-related discourse creates new requirements for citizenship and forms of social stratification. A timely intervention in the field of health studies, Neoliberal Governance and Health establishes the need for critical interdisciplinary scholarship to counter the individualizing and marginalizing tendencies of health-related policy, practice and research. ER -