Public health & preventive medicine
Reframing health and health policy in Ireland
A governmental analysis
Edited by Claire Edwards, Eluska Fernandez
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This edited collection is the first to apply the theoretical lens of post-Foucauldian governmentality to an analysis of health problems, practices, and policy in Ireland. Drawing on empirical examples related to childhood, obesity, mental health, smoking, ageing and others, the collection explores how specific health issues have been constructed as problematic and in need of intervention in the Irish State, and considers the strategies, discourses and technologies involved in the art of governing health in advanced liberal democracies. Bringing together academics from social policy, sociology, political science and public health, the text seeks to develop a dialogue about both the nature of health and health policy in the Ireland, but also how governmentality, as a theoretical approach, can contribute to the development of critical health policy analysis.
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Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning international literature which develops the potential of Foucauldian-inspired notions of governmentality to understand the construction of health problems, policies and practices. Reframing Health and Health Policy in Ireland is the first book to bring these insights to bear on the Irish health policy arena. Drawing on a range of empirical examples, including smoking, obesity, child health, ageing and disability, the collection explores how specific health issues have been constructed as problematic and in need of intervention in the Irish state, and considers the strategies, discourses and technologies involved in the art of governing health in advanced liberal democracies. The book makes a novel theoretical contribution to understanding the Irish health policy arena, while demonstrating through accessible empirical examples how governmentality can be operationalised and utilized in heath policy analysis. Building on this dialectic between policy and social theory, the book also reflects on the potential of govermentality for developing a critical politics of health policy in Ireland. This book will be of interest to students and academics in social policy, sociology, political science and health-based disciplines, including public health and nursing, and to those concerned with exploring how social theory can be used to re-orientate and develop our understandings of health and social policy agendas and practices. It will also appeal to those working within health policy arenas who are involved in framing and working through the social and political relations of health problems and policies.
Author Biography
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
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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
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