One Blue Child: Asthma, Responsibility, and the Politics of Global Health - Couverture souple

Trnka, Susanna

 
9781503602458: One Blue Child: Asthma, Responsibility, and the Politics of Global Health
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1503602451 ISBN 13 : 9781503602458
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2017

Synopsis

Radical changes in our understanding of health and healthcare are reshaping twenty-first-century personhood. In the last few years, there has been a great influx of public policy and biometric technologies targeted at engaging individuals in their own health, increasing personal responsibility, and encouraging people to "self-manage" their own care.

One Blue Child examines the emergence of self-management as a global policy standard, focusing on how healthcare is reshaping our relationships with ourselves and our bodies, our families and our doctors, companies, and the government. Comparing responses to childhood asthma in New Zealand and the Czech Republic, Susanna Trnka traces how ideas about self-management, as well as policies inculcating self-reliance and self-responsibility more broadly, are assumed, reshaped, and ignored altogether by medical professionals, asthma sufferers and parents, environmental activists, and policymakers. By studying nations that share a commitment to the ideals of neoliberalism but approach children's health according to very different cultural, political, and economic priorities, Trnka illuminates how responsibility is reformulated with sometimes surprising results.

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À propos de l?auteur

Susanna Trnka is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Auckland. She is the author of State of Suffering: Political Violence and Community Survival in Fiji (2008) and the co-editor of Competing Responsibilities: The Politics and Social Ethics of Responsibility in Contemporary Life (2017).

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Éditeur
Stanford University Press
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1503602451
ISBN 13 
9781503602458
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
280
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9781503601130: One Blue Child: Asthma, Responsibility, and the Politics of Global Health

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ISBN 10 :  1503601137 ISBN 13 :  9781503601130
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2017
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