03096nam 22006131a 450 991077902850332120230126202850.097866135320151-4399-0684-X1-280-12813-5(CKB)2550000000099151(EBL)878169(OCoLC)781786016(SSID)ssj0000600640(PQKBManifestationID)11396331(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000600640(PQKBWorkID)10601197(PQKB)11574226(MiAaPQ)EBC878169(MdBmJHUP)muse16262(Au-PeEL)EBL878169(CaPaEBR)ebr10547399(CaONFJC)MIL353201(EXLCZ)99255000000009915120110927d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGoverning how we care[electronic resource] contesting community and defining difference in U.S. public health programs /Susan J. ShawPhiladelphia, Pa. Temple University Press20121 online resource (226 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4399-0683-1 1-4399-0682-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Research6. Syringe Exchange as a Practice of GoverningConclusion; References; IndexAs 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 ciMinoritiesMedical careUnited StatesCommunity health servicesUnited StatesUnited StatesSocial policy21st centuryMinoritiesMedical careCommunity health services362.10973Shaw Susan J.Dr.1518111MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779028503321Governing how we care3755469UNINA