Full Description
An analysis of local struggles over community health as a window into governance, citizenship, and identity formation.
Contents
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Governmentality of Community Health Part I: Technologies of Citizenship and Difference 2. Community Health Advocates: The Professionalization of "Like Helping Like" 3. Neoliberalism at Work: Contemporary Scenarios of Governmental Reforms in Public Health and Social Work 4. Technologies of Culturally Appropriate Health Care Part II: Technologies of Prevention and Boundaries of Citizenship: Drug Use, Research, and Public Health 5. "I Always Use Bleach": The Production and Circulation of Risk and Norms in Drug Research 6. Syringe Exchange as a Practice of Governing Conclusion References Index



