The New Public Health: Discourses, Knowledges, Strategies

by Alan Petersen and Deborah Lupton

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076195404X
• ISBN13: 9780761954040
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Opens the door to critical anaylses in Public Health

This book hopefully breaks the ground for a new critical discourse within the practice of public health. A mandatory read for students of health promotion, epidemiology, and biostatistics. Foucaldian principles such as power diffusion are applied to the practice of public health, and its interaction with modern power structures. This book is a significant accomplishment.