Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

The biopolitics of lifestyle : foucault, ethics and healthy choices / Christopher Mayes.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Interventions (Routledge (Firm))Publisher: New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016Description: 1 online resource (xii, 155 pages.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781315675503 (electronic bk.)
  • 1315675501 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 613 23
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : the lifestyle problematic -- Obesity, bioethics and the lifestyle dispositif -- Lifestyle as politics : choice and responsibility -- Lifestyle as health : articulating an 'urgent need' -- Lifestyle as identity : consumption and the ethics of the self -- A cacophony of guidance : hearing, seeing and judging choices -- Styles of resistance : the body, counter-conduct and critique -- Relations of care : restless and endless transformation -- Conclusion : style, solidarity and security.
No physical items for this record

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the lifestyle problematic -- Obesity, bioethics and the lifestyle dispositif -- Lifestyle as politics : choice and responsibility -- Lifestyle as health : articulating an 'urgent need' -- Lifestyle as identity : consumption and the ethics of the self -- A cacophony of guidance : hearing, seeing and judging choices -- Styles of resistance : the body, counter-conduct and critique -- Relations of care : restless and endless transformation -- Conclusion : style, solidarity and security.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.