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.
Author(s): Jason Powell
Series: International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, and Practice
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 145
City: Cham
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
