Responsible Citizens: Individuals, Health and Policy under NeoliberalismThe individual has never been more important in society – in almost every sphere of public and private life, the individual is sovereign. Yet the importance and apparent power assigned to the individual is not all that it seems. As ‘Responsible Citizens’ investigates via its UK-based case studies, this emphasis on the individual has gone hand in hand with a rise in subtle authoritarianism, which has insinuated itself into the government of the population. Whilst present throughout the public services, this authoritarianism is most conspicuous in the health and social welfare sectors, such that a kind of ‘governance through responsibility’ is today enforced upon the population. |
Contents
Responsible Citizens_01_Chap 01_p001008 | 1 |
Responsible Citizens_02_Chap 02_p009026 | 9 |
Responsible Citizens_03_Chap 03_p027046 | 27 |
Responsible Citizens_04_Chap 04_p047068 | 47 |
Responsible Citizens_05_Chap 05_p069094 | 69 |
Responsible Citizens_06_Chap 06_p095118 | 95 |
Responsible Citizens_07_Chap 07_p119142 | 119 |
Responsible Citizens_08_Chap 08_p143162 | 143 |
Responsible Citizens_09_Chap 09_p163182 | 163 |
Responsible Citizens_10_Ref_p183210 | 183 |
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