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Date
2014-02
Dewey
Relations Etat / groupes sociaux
Sujet
santé publique; sociologie; science politique
Book title
The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society
Author
William C. Cockerham, Robert Dingwall, Stella R. Quah
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher city
Chichester
Year
2014
Pages number
2648
ISBN
9781118410868
Book URL
10.1002/9781118410868.wbehibs266
URI
https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/16534
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Author
Henry, Emmanuel
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Gilbert, Claude
675 Pacte, Laboratoire de sciences sociales [PACTE]
Type
Chapitre d'ouvrage
Item number of pages
1927–1933
Abstract (EN)
The notion of public health differs from that of health per se insofar as it concerns not individuals but groups and populations. Thus, with the notion of public health, the main concern is the health of a collective of any nature. The focus is on the way in which groups exposed to health risks are identified, distinguished, and controlled, and more generally on the way in which societies are governed today. As Michel Foucault showed, we tend to think of government less as a direct relationship between a sovereign and individuals/subjects, than as the way of controlling and framing the relatively autonomous lives of a population; in other words, as a biopolitics.

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