UID:
almafu_9959231732502883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 214 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-13863-4
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9786613808011
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0-85728-913-6
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9780857289131
Series Statement:
Key issues in modern sociology
Content:
The 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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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FRONT MATTER; Half Title Page; Main Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; MAIN MATTER; Chapter One - Introduction; Chapter Two - Individualism, Neoliberalism and the Imperatives of Personal Governance; Chapter Three - Individualism in Healthcare; Chapter Four - Enlisting, Measuring and Shaping the Individual in Healthcare Policy and Practice; Chapter Five - Mental Health and Personal Responsibility; Chapter Six - Responsibility in Therapy and the Therapeutic State; Chapter Seven - The Punitive Turn in Public Services: Coercing Responsibility; Chapter Eight - Thinking about Ourselve
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Chapter Nine - Talking Citizenship into BeingEND MATTER; References; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78308-045-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-85728-458-4
Language:
English
URL:
http://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9780857289131/type/BOOK
