Neoliberal Health Organizing: Communication, Meaning, and Politics

✍ Scribed by Mohan J Dutta

• Publisher: Left Coast Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 266
• Series: Critical Cultural Studies in Global Health Communication
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Mohan J Dutta closely interrogates the communicative forms and practices that have been central to the establishment of neoliberal governance. In particular, he examines cultural discourses of health in relationship to the market and the health implications of these cultural discourses. Using examples from around the world, he explores the roles of public-private partnerships, NGOs, militaries, and new technologies in reinforcing the link between market and health. Identifying the taken-for-granted assumptions that constitute the foundations of global neoliberal organizing, he offers an alternative strategy for a grassroots-driven participatory form of global organizing of health. This inventive theoretical volume speaks to those in critical communication, in health research, in social policy, and in contemporary political economy studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 8
1. Neoliberalism and Health......Page 12
2. Development Communication Interventions and Imperialism......Page 52
3. Foundations as Neoliberal Interventions......Page 92
4. Transnational Capital and Health......Page 112
5. NGOs, Health Communication and Democracy......Page 142
6. Health as Security: Crisis, Surveillance, and Management......Page 168
7. Communication Technologies and Health......Page 193
8. Epilogue: Neoliberal Health and Alternatives......Page 220
References......Page 244
Index......Page 262
About the Author......Page 266