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The New Public Health : Discourses, Knowledges, Strategies.
Petersen and Lupton focus critically on the new public health, assessing its implications for the concepts of self, embodiment and citizenship. They argue that the new public health is used as a source of moral regulation and for distinguishing between self and other. They also explore the implicati...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
SAGE Publications,
1996.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Petersen and Lupton focus critically on the new public health, assessing its implications for the concepts of self, embodiment and citizenship. They argue that the new public health is used as a source of moral regulation and for distinguishing between self and other. They also explore the implications of modernist belief in the power of science and the ability of experts to solve problems through rational administrative means that underpin the strategies and rhetoric of the new public health. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (227 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781446264416 1446264416 9780761954040 076195404X |