Neoliberal governance and health : duties, risks, and vulnerabilities
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- ISBN: 9780773547834 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
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vi, 360 p. ; 23 cm. - Publisher: Montreal, QC : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: the governance of health in neoliberal societies -- Fat children, failed (future) consumer-citizens, and mothers' duties in neoliberal consumer society -- Environment-as-risk and green consumerism in neoliberal public health practices -- Tween girls, human papillomavirus (HPV), and the deployment of female sexuality in English Canadian magazines -- Risk, retirement, and the 'duty to age well' : shaping productive aging citizens in Canadian newsprint media -- The political is personal : breast cancer risk, genetic(optim)ization and the proactive subject as neoliberal biological citizen -- Global biopolitics and pandemic influenza preparedness : securitization and the regulation of viral uncertainty and mutual vulnerability -- Risk and resistance: citizenship and self-determination through health governance in Nunavut, Canada -- 'So it's always a dance': the politics of gifts and governance at a drop-in centre for vulnerable women in southern Ontario -- 'You are free to set your own hours': governing worker productivity and health through flexibility and resilience -- Active citizenship and the management of stigma in contingent work -- Self management and the government of disability: reinforcing normalcy through the construction of able-disabled subjectives. |
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Subject: | Medical care -- Canada -- Case studies Medical policy -- Canada -- Case studies Public health -- Canada -- Case studies Neoliberalism -- Canada -- Case studies |
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Legislative Library, Vaughan Street | RA 395 .C3 Neo (Text) | 36970100092784 | General Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |