Reframing health and health policy in Ireland : a governmental analysis / edited by Claire Edwards and Eluska Fernández.
Material type: TextSeries: Manchester History of MedicinePublication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.Description: 1 online resource (282 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781526116543
- 1526116545
- 9781526128607
- 1526128608
- 9781526116550
- 1526116553
- Public health -- Ireland
- Medical policy -- Ireland
- Health planning
- Medical policy
- National health services
- Ireland
- Health Planning
- Health Policy
- State Medicine
- Ireland
- Health Services
- Santé publique -- Irlande
- Politique sanitaire -- Irlande
- Santé publique -- Planification
- Politique sanitaire
- Services de santé
- Irlande
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare
- HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues
- Medical policy
- Public health
- Ireland
- 362.109417 23
- RA395.I73
- 2017 G-145
- WA 540 GI6
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Includes index.
Print version record.
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Figures and tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Analysing health and health policy: introducing the governmentality turn; PART I: Constructing health problems and (un)healthy subjects; 2 Governing the future: children's health and biosocial power; 3 Doing the 'right thing'? Children, families and fatness in Ireland; 4 32 and 37 inches -- the healthy body and the politics of waist circumference: a governmental analysis of the Stop the Spread campaign.
5 The contemporary self in tobacco control: exploring the introduction of the smoking ban in Ireland6 When health means illness: analysing mental health discourses and practices in Ireland; 7 Governing organ donation: the dead body, the individual and the limits of medicine; PART II: Governing neoliberal healthcare agendas: politics, strategies and practices; 8 Neoliberal governmentality and public health policy in Ireland; 9 Governing healthcare: the case of Universal Health Insurance -- by competition; 10 Assessment of Need as a technology of government in Ireland's Disability Act 2005.
11 Long-term care policy for older people in Ireland: a governmental analysis12 Conclusion: governmentality, health policy and the place of critical politics; Index.
This text seeks to deepen our theorization of Irish health policy agendas and practices by demonstrating how governmentality can be used to understand some of Ireland's contemporary health issues and dilemmas. Drawing on a range of empirical contexts, it explores the potential of governmentality to contribute to a critical politics of Irish health and health policy.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In English.
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