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The New Public Health
Discourses, Knowledges, Strategies

First Edition


December 1996 | 192 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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.

 
Introduction
 
The New Public Health
A New Morality?

 
 
Epidemiology
Governing by Numbers

 
 
The `Healthy' Citizen
 
Risk Discourse and `the Environment'
 
The `Healthy' City
 
The Duty to Participate
 
Conclusion

`I found the book provocative and well worth reading' - Public Health Reports

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