Description: One Blue Child : Asthma, Responsibility, and the Politics of Global Health, Paperback by Trnka, Susanna, ISBN 1503602451, ISBN-13 9781503602458, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Radical changes in our understanding of health and healthcare are reshaping twenty-first-century personhood. In the last few years, there has been a great influx of public policy and biometric technologies targeted at engaging individuals in their own health, increasing personal responsibility, and encouraging people to "self-manage" their own care. One Blue Child examines the emergence of self-management as a global policy standard, focusing on how healthcare is reshaping our relationships with ourselves and our bodies, our families and our doctors, companies, and the government. Comparing responses to childhood asthma in New Zealand and the Czech Republic, Susanna Trnka traces how ideas about self-management, as well as policies inculcating self-reliance and self-responsibility more broadly, are assumed, reshaped, and ignored altogether by medical professionals, asthma sufferers and parents, environmental activists, and policymakers. By studying nations that share a commitment to the ideals of neoliberalism but approach children's health according to very different cultural, political, and economic priorities, Trnka illuminates how responsibility is reformulated with sometimes surprising results.
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Book Title: One Blue Child : Asthma, Responsibility, and the Politics of Glob
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Publication Name: One Blue Child : Asthma, Responsibility, and the Politics of Global Health
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Subject: Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Publication Year: 2017
Item Height: 0.7 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16.1 Oz
Author: Susanna Trnka
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Social Science, Medical
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Anthropology of Policy Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
