Author: Alan Petersen
Edition: 1
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 076195404X
The New Public Health: Health and Self in the Age of Risk
Petersen and Lupton focus critically on the new public health, assessing its implications for the concepts of self, embodiment and citizenship. Medical books The New Public Health. They argue that the new public health is used as a source of moral regulation and for distinguishing between self and other Medical books .
Medical Book The New Public Health
They argue that the new public health is used as a source of moral regulation and for distinguishing between self and other. They also explore the implications of modernist belief in the power of science and the ability of experts to solve problems through rational administrative means that underpin the strategies and rhetoric of the new public health.
