Public health crisis as problematization: A comparative analysis of opioid overdose and heart disease
Health:: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine
Published online on January 23, 2026
Abstract
Health, Ahead of Print.
This paper takes a common concept in Foucault and governmentality studies, problematization, to demonstrate its operational usefulness for analyzing public health crises. Social scientists have draw on this concept to discuss how phenomena become named as ...
This paper takes a common concept in Foucault and governmentality studies, problematization, to demonstrate its operational usefulness for analyzing public health crises. Social scientists have draw on this concept to discuss how phenomena become named as ...