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Explore the complex relationship between governance and personal habits in The Biopolitics of Lifestyle: Foucault, Ethics and Healthy Choices. Published by Routledge, this academic work examines how the global urgency surrounding obesity has triggered a wide range of medical and non-medical interventions. It investigates how lifestyle is used as a biopolitical tool to manage individual choices and protect population health. As obesity is increasingly characterized as a societal threat stemming from individual habits, daily practices have become politicized. This book provides a critical examination of the assumptions behind these interventions. It is an essential resource for readers interested in how the cumulative effect of daily choices is monitored and regulated at both national and international levels. This text offers a deep look into the politics of health and the ways in which individual agency is shaped by broader societal goals.

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Examines the biopolitical use of lifestyle to govern individual choices and secure population health.

Analyzes the growing urgency of obesity at both national and international levels.

Investigates the proliferation of medical and non-medical interventions into daily life.

Critically reviews how daily habits and practices have become politicized as potential societal threats.

Provides an academic perspective on the relationship between Foucault, ethics, and healthy choices.

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Release Date
26 October 2017
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10 August 2017

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