Governing how we care
Subtitle: contesting community and defining difference in U.S. public health programs
By: Susan J. Shaw
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781439906828; 9781439906835; 9781439906842
Subjects: Public Health; Government Programs; Community Health Services; Cultural Anthropology
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.