Foucault, health and medicine / edited by Alan Petersen and Robin Bunton ; foreword by Bryan S. Turner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Foreword : from governmentality to risk, some reflections on Foucault's contribution to medical sociology / Bryan S. Turner -- Introduction : Foucault's medicine / Robin Bunton and Alan Petersen -- Foucault and the sociology of health and illness : a prismatic reading / David Armstrong -- Is there life after Foucault? : texts, frames, and differends / Nick J. Fox -- Mental health, criminality and the human sciences / David McCallum -- At risk of maladjustment : the problem of child mental health / Deborah Tyler -- Foucault and the medicalisation critique / Deborah Lupton -- Is health education good for you? : re-thinking health education through the concept of bio-power / Denise Gastaldo -- Bodies at risk : sex, surveillance and hormone replacement therapy / Jennifer Harding -- Foucault, embodiment and gendered subjectivities : the case of voluntary self-starvation / Liz Eckermann -- Of health and statecraft / Thomas Osborne -- Risk, governance and the new public health / Alan Petersen -- Governing the risky self : how to become healthy, wealthy and wise / Sarah Nettleton -- Popular health, advanced liberalism and Good housekeeping magazine / Robin Bunton.

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. This book assesses the contribution of Foucault's work to research and thinking in the area of health and medicine, and shows how key researchers in the sociology of health and illness are currently engaging with his ideas. Foucault, Health and Medicine explores such important issues as: Foucault's concept of 'discourse', the critique of the 'medicalization' thesis,

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