Reframing health and health policy in Ireland
A governmental analysis
Edited by Claire Edwards, Eluska Fernandez
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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
Manchester University Press
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date May 2017
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780719095870
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 75 GBP
- Pages296
- ReadershipCollege/Tertiary Education
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions234 x 156 mm
- Illustration2 charts
- Biblio Notes1. 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