Governing health and consumption: Sensible citizens, behaviour and the city

Governing health and consumption: Sensible citizens, behaviour and the city
ISBN-10
1847426395
ISBN-13
9781847426390
Category
Medical
Pages
264
Language
English
Published
2011-07-27
Publisher
Policy Press
Authors
Clare, Herrick

Description

This book critically explores the urban governance of healthy lifestyles and the contemporary problematisations of the obesity, sedentarism and alcohol epidemics. To do so, it uses US and UK case studies to shed light on the complex socio-spatial dynamics of responsibilities for health and argues for an engagement with the construct of sensible behaviour at a time of its rising political salience. This book will appeal to sociologists, geographers, anthropologists and those concerned with the governance of health and lifestyle.

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