TY - JOUR
T1 - Japan’s Public Health Paradigm
T2 - Governmentality and the Containment of Harmful Behavior
AU - Borovoy, Amy
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2017/1/2
Y1 - 2017/1/2
N2 - In this essay, I revisit the politics of social control in the context of contemporary public health discussions, touching on the management of obesity and chronic illness. Foucault’s cautionary observations regarding the infiltration of normative social values into the terrain of healing offer a productive framework for considering the politics of public health in the industrialized world. I explore Japan’s public health paradigm and its key features of bureaucratic reform and health interventions through screening, socialization, education, and aggressive lifestyle training, and I consider the close proximity between health and socio-cultural values in the management of chronic conditions in Japan.
AB - In this essay, I revisit the politics of social control in the context of contemporary public health discussions, touching on the management of obesity and chronic illness. Foucault’s cautionary observations regarding the infiltration of normative social values into the terrain of healing offer a productive framework for considering the politics of public health in the industrialized world. I explore Japan’s public health paradigm and its key features of bureaucratic reform and health interventions through screening, socialization, education, and aggressive lifestyle training, and I consider the close proximity between health and socio-cultural values in the management of chronic conditions in Japan.
KW - Chronic conditions
KW - Japan
KW - obesity
KW - public health
KW - screening
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U2 - 10.1080/01459740.2016.1148033
DO - 10.1080/01459740.2016.1148033
M3 - Article
C2 - 27002929
AN - SCOPUS:84961390566
SN - 0145-9740
VL - 36
SP - 32
EP - 46
JO - Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness
JF - Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness
IS - 1
ER -