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Main Title: | The making of the healthcare self |
Subtitle: | State metamorphoses, activation, responsibilisation and red-green alliance’s healthcare reforms in Germany |
Author(s): | Ullrich, Peter Kausch, Stefan Holze, Sigrun |
Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Language Code: | en |
Abstract: | The coalition government in Germany (1998-2005) of the social democrats and the greens instituted several healthcare reform measures marking a paradigm shift and thus setting the direction of reform for subsequent governments’ healthcare politics. Agreeing with governmentality studies perspectives on recent transformations of govern-ing western democracies that have been analysed as ambiguously offering new opportuni-ties (= more freedom) and bringing new disciplinary measures (= more force), it can be shown that many measures are geared towards the activation and responsibilisation of insurants. In doing so, they produce what we call a “healthcare self”. This is characterised by a feeling of personal responsibility for one’s health, knowledge of options to obtain health, a high degree of reflexivity in health issues and willingness to pay for healthcare costs, because they are seen as an investment in one’s own prosperity. This is founded in a moral discourse and an institutional restructuring, which we consider a sign for a basic metamorphosis of the concept of the state into what we call a new state arrangement. |
URI: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:83-opus4-72437 http://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/5032 http://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-4735 |
Issue Date: | 2012 |
Date Available: | 29-Sep-2015 |
DDC Class: | 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
Subject(s): | Deutschland Gesundheitsvorsorge Gesundheitswesen Politische Reform Rot-Grüne Koalition Germany Green party Healthcare Political reform Social democrats |
License: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
Journal Title: | Hamburg review of social sciences : hrss |
Publisher Place: | Hamburg |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | 1 |
Page Start: | 52 |
Page End: | 72 |
Notes: | Zuerst erschienen im Hamburg review of social sciences: Ullrich, Peter; Kausch, Stefan; Holze, Sigrun: The making of the healthcare self : state metamorphoses, activation, responsibilisation and red-green alliance’s healthcare reforms in Germany. - In: Hamburg review of social sciences : hrss. - ISSN: 1862-3921 (online). - 7 (2012), 1. pp. 52–72. |
Appears in Collections: | Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung » Publications Zentrum Technik und Gesellschaft (ZTG) » Publications |
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