Responsible Citizens : Individuals, Health, and Policy Under Neoliberalism /

'Responsible Citizens' reveals how rising emphasis on the individual has gone hand in hand with an increase in subtle authoritarianism - particularly within public services - such that a kind of 'governance through responsibility' is today being enforced upon the population.

Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Brown, B. J. (Brian J.)
Weitere Verfasser: Baker, Sally
Format: Licensed eBooks
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York : Anthem Press ©2012.
Schriftenreihe:Key issues in modern sociology.
Online-Zugang:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1gxp9nw
Inhaltsangabe:
  • FRONT MATTER; Half Title Page; Main Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; MAIN MATTER; Chapter One
  • Introduction; Chapter Two
  • Individualism, Neoliberalism and the Imperatives of Personal Governance; Chapter Three
  • Individualism in Healthcare; Chapter Four
  • Enlisting, Measuring and Shaping the Individual in Healthcare Policy and Practice; Chapter Five
  • Mental Health and Personal Responsibility; Chapter Six
  • Responsibility in Therapy and the Therapeutic State; Chapter Seven
  • The Punitive Turn in Public Services: Coercing Responsibility; Chapter Eight
  • Thinking about Ourselve.
  • Chapter Nine
  • Talking Citizenship into BeingEND MATTER; References; Index.