The New Public Health: Discourses, Knowledges, Strategies

by Alan Petersen, Deborah Lupton

Petersen and Lupton focus critically on the new public health, assessing its implications for the concepts of self, embodiment and citizenship. 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.

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

Reviews

[Ietrio · Rating 1 out of 5]

It's a "new" public health, as compared with the Napoleonian system. And it is truly an age of risk, now with antibiotics and the new dangerous genetic research that the government has to put in a cage for small minds like Petersen's to examine sllllowly.