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Governing health and consumption

Sensible citizens, behaviour and the city

Clare Herrick author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bristol University Press

Published:27th Jul '11

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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.

"A timely and challenging discussion of the dilemmas of contemporary health policy which recognises the often intractible environmental determinants of health and still emphasises information to modify individual behaviours." Julie Guthman, Associate Professor of Community Studies, University of California Santa Cruz

ISBN: 9781847426383

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264 pages