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

Susanna Trnka

ISBN 10: 1503601137 / ISBN 13: 9781503601130

Edité par Stanford University Press Jun 2017, 2017

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Neuware - 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.

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• Titre: One Blue Child : Asthma, Responsibility, and the Politics of Global Health
• Éditeur: Stanford University Press Jun 2017
• Date de parution: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1503601137
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781503601130
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 231 L x 155 H x 20 P (en millimètres) 231 millimètres de largeur par 155 millimètres de hauteur par 20 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 499 grammes

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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.

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).