Readings of state and health neoliberal government

Bibliographic Data

ID4863938
AuthorsHenrique Sater De Andrade (0000-0001-9847-3663, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)), Sérgio Resende Carvalho (0000-0002-4260-2507, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), corresponding author), Cathana Freitas De Oliveira (0000-0003-0723-9519, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP))
Year2022
Volume32
Issue1
Publication date2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhysis Revista de Saúde Coletiva (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0103-7331 • E-ISSN: 1809-4481
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s0103-73312022320116en
OpenAlexW4226211204
SCIELO_PIDS0103-73312022000100614
LanguageEN
References cited16

Brazilian Public Health has often analyzed neoliberalism as a phenomenon of emptying the role of the State and a threat to public and universal health. Taking Foucault's governmental thought as a subsidy, we discuss neoliberalism as a profound metamorphosis, not only of the State, but of health production. As a permanent update of liberalism, the neoliberal government changes the boundaries between public and private and produces new forms of normality, risk and subjectivity, progressively subordinate to the truth of the logic of the economy and the market. This economic rationality creates new ideals of health, inspired by management techniques of corporations, and produces new biological, sanitary, psychological truths. Restricted to "successful self-entrepreneurs", health may become a moral and economic choice in relation to individual behavior and risk, making the State not responsible and creating a type of economic citizenship devoid of solidarity. However, the game around non-corporate health institutions and practices remains open. It is up to us to question the "responsible" and "safe" life forms that were invented for us and to develop other governmentalities that are less excluding and unequal compared to those that we have naturalized and practiced

Biopower · Epistemology · Government (linguistics · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Rationality · Sociology · State (computer science · Subjectivity · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Law