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As local governments and organizations assume more responsibility for ensuring the public health, identity politics play an increasing yet largely unexamined role in public and policy attitudes toward local problems. In Governing How We Care, medical anthropologist Susan Shaw examines the relationship between government and citizens using case studies of needle exchange and Welfare-to-Work programs to illustrate the meanings of cultural difference, ethnicity, and inequality in health care. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted over six years in a small New England city, Shaw presents critical perspectives on public health intervention efforts. She looks at online developments in health care and makes important correlations between poverty and health care in the urban United States. Shaw also highlights the new concepts of community and forms of identity that emerge in our efforts to provide effective health care. Governing How We Care shows how government-sponsored community health and health care programs operate in an age of neoliberalism. Susan J. Shaw is Associate Professor in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona.
"[T]his is a thoughtful contribution to relationships between government, community, and public health... Recommended." Choice, September 2012 "Shaw offers a sophisticated critical examination of community health efforts in the United States... Shaw's book is interesting and provides an insightful critique of public health programming in the United States. She demonstrates both the contested nature of what these program[s] do and the definitions of the communities that they are intended to serve. The book will no doubt be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists, and other social scientists interested in societal responses to health problems. It is well written and deeply grounded in contemporary social theory and careful analysis of rich and varied ethnographic data...social theorists and ethnographers will find the book a valuable contribution to the field... Shaw's critique is clear and significant." Sociology of Health & Illness, November 2012 "This book is a must-read for policy makers, researchers, health care administrators, public officials, and others who are interested in the complex issues surrounding health care delivery in the United States... [Shaw] explores the risks and norms of drug prevention research... [Her] illumination of this phenomenon in the injection drug user population provides a challenging perspective to the field... Governing How We Care provides a concretely rooted lesson about the experience of vulnerable populations in public health programs. Readers will gain valuable insight into programs that aim to correct short-term behavior and long-term behavior adaptations." - Public Administration Review
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Governmentality of Community Health | p. 18 |
| Technologies of Citizenship and Difference | |
| Community Health Advocates: The Professionalization of "Like Helping Like" | p. 43 |
| Neoliberalism at Work: Contemporary Scenarios of Governmental Reforms in Public Health and Social Work | p. 72 |
| Technologies of Culturally Appropriate Health Care | p. 103 |
| Technologies of Prevention and Boundaries of Citizenship: Drug Use, Research, and Public Health | |
| "I Always Use Bleach": The Production and Circulation of Risk and Norms in Drug Research | p. 135 |
| Syringe Exchange as a Practice of Governing | p. 156 |
| Conclusion | p. 184 |
| References | p. 191 |
| Index | p. 211 |
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ISBN: 9781439906835
ISBN-10: 1439906831
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 214
Published: 2nd March 2012
Dimensions (cm): 22.4 x 15.0
x 1.8
Weight (kg): 0.318
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