Assembling a health[y] subject: Risky and shameful pedagogies in health education

Critical Public Health

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 171-181

  Leahy, Deana ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

affect; governmentality; health education; neoliberalism; risk

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CURRICULUM; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; KNOWLEDGE; NORMAL HUMAN; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUAL EDUCATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TEACHER; TEACHING; DISGUST; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MACHINE; PEDAGOGICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SHAME;

EID: 84897073992     PISSN: 09581596     EISSN: 14693682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09581596.2013.871504     Document Type: Article

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