One Blue Child: Asthma, Responsibility, and the Politics of Global Health

by Susanna Trnka

Book Overview

Radical changes in our understanding of health and healthcare are reshaping twenty-first-century personhood. In the last few years, there has been a great influx of public policy and biometric technologies targeted at engaging individuals in their own health, increasing personal responsibility, and encouraging people to "self-manage" their own care.

One Blue Child examines the emergence of self-management as a global policy standard,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503602451
• ISBN13: 9781503602458
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"