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Knowledge into Action: A Genealogy of Public Health Policy in Denmark and the United States 1975-2005 - Couverture souple

Larsen, Lars Thorup

 
9783639174113: Knowledge into Action: A Genealogy of Public Health Policy in Denmark and the United States 1975-2005
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3639174119 ISBN 13 : 9783639174113
Editeur : VDM Verlag, 2009

Synopsis

In the 1970s, most Western nations began to shift the emphasis of health care provision from treatment to prevention. While originally motivated by the rise of lifestyle diseases, the emergence of the new public health policy mainly involves a new way to understand and structure the relationship between health knowledge and individual action. The book investigates what political rationality characterizes this new ambition in public health policies to put knowledge into action in the hands of individual citizens and how these policies adapt to the continuous experience that citizens often do not listen. Based on a Foucauldian framework, the genealogy demonstrates the new governmentality in Danish and American public health policy, which depends upon a specific politics of truth. Not only does public health policy build on a large amount of scientific knowledge. It also demands a change in the production and circulation of health knowledge, which attempts to replace the usual ¿ifs, buts and maybes¿ of medical science with an action-minded public health knowledge just telling people what to do.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In the 1970s, most Western nations began to shift the emphasis of health care provision from treatment to prevention. While originally motivated by the rise of lifestyle diseases, the emergence of the new public health policy mainly involves a new way to understand and structure the relationship between health knowledge and individual action. The book investigates what political rationality characterizes this new ambition in public health policies to put knowledge into action in the hands of individual citizens and how these policies adapt to the continuous experience that citizens often do not listen. Based on a Foucauldian framework, the genealogy demonstrates the new governmentality in Danish and American public health policy, which depends upon a specific politics of truth. Not only does public health policy build on a large amount of scientific knowledge. It also demands a change in the production and circulation of health knowledge, which attempts to replace the usual ¿ifs, buts and maybes¿ of medical science with an action-minded public health knowledge just telling people what to do.

Biographie de l'auteur

Lars Thorup Larsen, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus.

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Éditeur
VDM Verlag
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3639174119
ISBN 13 
9783639174113
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
220
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