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Public health crisis as problematization: A comparative analysis of opioid overdose and heart disease

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Health:: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine

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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 ...