New Perspectives on Health and Social Care

Description

The relationship between health, social care, and the teaching of disciplines such as sociology, social work, and social policy are increasing in many regions worldwide. This book explores the relationship between wider social theory and social welfare though an understanding of how power and resistance impinges on how helping professions operate in health and social spaces in the twenty-first century. The book presents a critical analysis of major Foucauldian theories and social issues in the construction and practice of health and social welfare. It discusses important theoretical and substantive contributions to current debates and presents an engaging, comprehensive, and innovative perspective to address both how power and resistance shape the way we live and how the way we live shapes the way in which we understand social relations among professionals, policy makers, and user groups in comparative contexts. The purpose of this book is to critically inform debates concerning the abstract and empirical features of health and social care examined through the lens of innovative theoretical perspectives emanating from Foucauldian theories.​ Preface Contents Chapter 1: Introduction: Perspectives on Health and Social Care Introduction Health and Social Care as ‘Science’ Health and Social Care as Social Theory Mapping Out the Terrain: Modern and Postmodern Theories of Health and Social Care Social Theory and the Rise of Functionalist Accounts of Health and Social Care Political Economy Feminism: Health and Social Care Postmodern Health and Social Care Conclusion Chapter 2: New Perspectives: Foucault and Applicability to Health and Social Care Introduction Power and the Modern Subject Genealogy The Body The Population The Individual Implications Chapter 3: A Foucauldian Analysis of Health and Social Care Introduction The Biomedical Model and Aging Foucault and Aging: An Important Conceptual Toolkit A History of the Present: The Management of Aging by Social Work A Genealogy of the Post-Second World War Consensus of Care and Aging Psycho-Casework with Older People Health, Care, Market Forces and Aging Aging and Care Management The Embedded Market of Care and Aging Conclusion Chapter 4: Surveillance and Health and Social Care Introduction The Rise of Personalisation Foucault and Surveillance The Technologies of Health and Social Care The Panoptic Culture Conclusion Chapter 5: Governmentality and Health and Social Care Introduction Governmentality Social Policy: Constructing the Context Integrating Services: Social Policy and Career People Conclusion Chapter 6: Performativity and Health and Social Care Introduction Performance and Performativity Rethinking Power and Resistance Performativity and Professionalisation ‘A Professional Performance’: Social Work, Knowledge and Subjection Conclusion Chapter 7: Power and Health and Social Care Introduction A Foucauldian Analytical Framework: Medicalisation and Managerialism Concluding Comments Chapter 8: Narrative, Health, Care and Family Introduction ‘Grand-Parenting’ Policy and Care Conclusion Chapter 9: Health and Care in the ‘Risk Society’ Introduction From Trust to Risk The Historical Rise and Consolidation of ‘Risk’ The ‘Risk Society’ Thesis Health and Social Care in Risk Society: A Case Study Based on Health and Social Care Genealogy of Risk and Health and Social Care Identities Conclusion Chapter 10: Towards Global Health? Introduction Global Health in Perspective The Challenges and Consequences of Global Health References Index