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Book SynopsisThis study demonstrates how governmentality can be used to understand some of Ireland’s contemporary health issues and dilemmas. By drawing on a range of empirical contexts, it explores the potential of governmentality to contribute to a critical politics of Irish health and health policy.
Table of Contents1. Analysing health and health policy: introducing the governmentality turn – Claire Edwards and Eluska Fernández
Part I: Constructing health problems and (un)healthy subjects
2. Governing the future: children’s health and biosocial power – Kevin Ryan
3. Doing the ‘right thing’? Children, families and fatness in Ireland – Michelle Share and Perry Share
4. 32 and 37 inches, the healthy body and the politics of waist circumference: a governmental analysis of the Stop the Spread Campaign – Fiona Dukelow
5. The contemporary self in tobacco control: exploring the introduction of the smoking ban in Ireland – Eluska Fernández
6. When health means illness: analysing mental health discourses and practices in Ireland – Derek Chambers
7. Governing organ donation: the dead body, the individual and the limits of medicine – Órla O’Donovan
Part II: Governing neoliberal healthcare agendas: politics, strategies and practices
8. Neoliberal governmentality and public health policy in Ireland – Joanne Wilson and Lindsay Prior
9. Governing healthcare: the case of Universal Health Insurance – by Competition – Cliona Loughnane
10. Assessment of Need as a technology of government in Ireland’s Disability Act 2005 – Claire Edwards
11. Long-term care policy for older people in Ireland: a governmental analysis – Ciara O'Dwyer
12. Conclusion: Governmentality, health policy and the place of critical politics – Eluska Fernández and Claire Edwards
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