Governing Un/healthy Populations

A Companion to Health and Medical Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 477-493

  Brown, Tim ^a   Watson, Duika L Burges ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Approaching governmentality and emergence of "governmentality" in Foucault's writing; Ethics of responsibilizing subjects subjects "responsibilised " in self management of HIV AIDS risk; Governing un healthy populations; Governmentality referring to operation of power; Health, wellbeing, and governmentality; HIV AIDS appropriated through language of political "bio security" and problem of international institutions; Public health science involving attention to social determinants of health and wellbeing; Relevance of Foucault's notion of governmentality to health geographers; US Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) launching "what is public health" website

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953056367     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314762.ch25     Document Type: Chapter

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