The Biopolitics of Lifestyle: Foucault, Ethics and Healthy Choices

ISBN-13: 9780815377399 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 156 str.

Christopher Mayes

Opis

This work focuses on the biopolitical use of lifestyle to govern individual choice and secure population health from the threat of obesity. The characterization of obesity as a threat to society caused by the cumulative effect of individual lifestyles has led to the politicization of daily choices, habits and practices as potential threats.

Spis treści

Introduction - The Lifestyle Problematic  Chapter 1 - Obesity, bioethics and the lifestyle dispositif  Chapter 2 - Lifestyle as Politics: Choice and Responsibility  Chapter 3 - Lifestyle as Health: Articulating an ‘Urgent Need’  Chapter 4 - Lifestyle as Identity: Consumption and the Ethics of the Self  Chapter 5 - A Cacophony of Guidance: Hearing, Seeing and Judging Choices  Chapter 6 - Styles of Resistance: The Body, Counter-Conduct and Critique  Chapter 7 - Relations of Care: Restless and Endless Transformation  Conclusion - Style, Solidarity and Security

O autorze

Christopher Mayes is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine (VELiM).