Edwards / Unknown / Fernandez Reframing health and health policy in Ireland

A governmental analysis
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1654-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

This study demonstrates how governmentality can be used to understand some of Ireland’s contemporary health issues and dilemmas. By 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Edwards, Claire

Fernandez, Eluska

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Analysing health and health policy: introducing the governmentality turn – Claire Edwards and Eluska Fernández
Part I: Constructing health problems and (un)healthy subjects
2. Governing the future: children’s health and biosocial power – Kevin Ryan
3. Doing the ‘right thing’? Children, families and fatness in Ireland – Michelle Share and Perry Share
4. 32 and 37 inches, the healthy body and the politics of waist circumference: a governmental analysis of the Stop the Spread Campaign – Fiona Dukelow
5. The contemporary self in tobacco control: exploring the introduction of the smoking ban in Ireland – Eluska Fernández
6. When health means illness: analysing mental health discourses and practices in Ireland – Derek Chambers
7. Governing organ donation: the dead body, the individual and the limits of medicine – Órla O’Donovan
Part II: Governing neoliberal healthcare agendas: politics, strategies and practices
8. Neoliberal governmentality and public health policy in Ireland – Joanne Wilson and Lindsay Prior
9. Governing healthcare: the case of Universal Health Insurance – by Competition – Cliona Loughnane
10. Assessment of Need as a technology of government in Ireland’s Disability Act 2005 – Claire Edwards
11. Long-term care policy for older people in Ireland: a governmental analysis – Ciara O'Dwyer
12. Conclusion: Governmentality, health policy and the place of critical politics – Eluska Fernández and Claire Edwards
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Claire Edwards is Lecturer in the School of Applied Social Studies at University College Cork

Eluska Fernández is Lecturer in the School of Applied Social Studies at University College Cork