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Deconstructing Behavioural Classifications: Tobacco Control, 'professional Vision' And The Tobacco User As A Site Of Governmental Intervention / Michael Mair -- Neoliberalism, Public Health And The Moral Perils Of Fatness / Kathleen Lebesco -- Addiction And Personal Responsibility As Solutions To The Contradictions Of Neoliberal Consumerism / Robin Room -- Between Alarmists And Sceptics: On The Cultural Politics Of Obesity Scholarship And Public Policy / Michael Gard -- Legislating Abjection? Second-hand Smoke, Tobacco-control Policy And The Public's Health / Kirsten Bell -- Permissible Pleasures And Alcohol Consumption / Robin Bunton -- Intoxication, Harm And Pleasure: An Analysis Of The Australian National Alcohol Strategy / Helen Keane -- Smoking Causes Creative Responses: On State Anti-smoking Policy And Resilient Habits / Simone Dennis -- The Sociality Of Smoking In The Face Of Anti-smoking Policies / Lucy Mccullough -- In Praise Of Hunger: Public Health And The Problem Of Excess / John Coveney -- From The Womb To The Tomb: Obesity And Maternal Responsibility / Darlene Mcnaughton -- Responsibility For The Family's Health: How Nutritional Discourses Construct The Role Of Mothers / Svetlana Ristovski-slijepcevic -- Pretty Girls Don't Smoke: Gender And Appearance Imperatives In Tobacco Prevention / Rebecca J. Haines-saah -- Aboriginal Mothering, Fasd Prevention And The Contestations Of Neoliberal Citizenship / Amy Salmon. Edited By Kirsten Bell, Darlene Mcnaughton And Amy Salmon. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.
This collection investigates how modern public health initiatives regarding alcohol, tobacco, and obesity function as moralizing frameworks that shift responsibility onto the individual. The editors, Kirsten Bell, Darlene McNaughton, and Amy Salmon, curate a series of scholarly essays that examine the intersection of neoliberal governance, social stigma, and health policy. By analyzing how specific behaviors are categorized as deviant or dangerous, the contributors argue that current health strategies often prioritize moral judgment over structural solutions to health disparities.
What You Will Find
Experts identify this volume as a significant contribution to the critical sociology of health and illness. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, which provides a rigorous challenge to conventional public health narratives.
Page Count:
248
Publication Date:
2011-01-01
Publisher:
Routledge
ISBN-10:
0203822153
ISBN-13:
9780203822159
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