The making of the healthcare self

Ullrich, Peter; Kausch, Stefan; Holze, Sigrun

The making of the healthcare self

dc.contributor.author	Ullrich, Peter	en
dc.contributor.author	Kausch, Stefan	en
dc.contributor.author	Holze, Sigrun	en
dc.date.accessioned	2015-11-21T01:14:43Z
dc.date.available	2015-09-29T12:00:00Z
dc.date.issued	2012
dc.date.submitted	2015-09-29
dc.description.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.	en
dc.identifier.eissn	1862-3921
dc.identifier.uri	urn:nbn:de:kobv:83-opus4-72437
dc.identifier.uri	https://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/5032
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-4735
dc.language	English	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.rights.uri	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/	en
dc.subject.ddc	300 Sozialwissenschaften	en
dc.subject.other	Deutschland	de
dc.subject.other	Gesundheitsvorsorge	de
dc.subject.other	Gesundheitswesen	de
dc.subject.other	Politische Reform	de
dc.subject.other	Rot-Grüne Koalition	de
dc.subject.other	Germany	en
dc.subject.other	Green party	en
dc.subject.other	healthcare	en
dc.subject.other	political reform	en
dc.subject.other	social democrats	en
dc.title	The making of the healthcare self	en
dc.title.subtitle	State metamorphoses, activation, responsibilisation and red-green alliance’s healthcare reforms in Germany	en
dc.type	Article	en
dc.type.version	publishedVersion	en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.issue	1	en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle	Hamburg review of social sciences : hrss	en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplace	Hamburg	en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend	72	en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart	52	en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume	7	en
tub.accessrights.dnb	domain	*
tub.affiliation	Fak. 1 Geistes- und Bildungswissenschaften::Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung	de
tub.affiliation	Zentrale & sonstige Einrichtungen::Zentrum Technik und Gesellschaft (ZTG)	de
tub.affiliation.faculty	Fak. 1 Geistes- und Bildungswissenschaften	de
tub.affiliation.faculty	Zentrale & sonstige Einrichtungen	de
tub.affiliation.group	Zentrum Technik und Gesellschaft (ZTG)	de
tub.affiliation.institute	Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung	de
tub.identifier.opus4	7243
tub.publisher.universityorinstitution	Technische Universität Berlin	en

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